I keep my hopes and dreams inside of you,
Amongst the other things
My mother seems to never see the bruises that I'm covering
Never been known as my government name
My foster home is where I've been placed,
Away from the pain
And now you sit before me with a folder holding my story
You my saviour with nothing on my but power and glory
And surely, you'll never ignore me
'Cause when the call came,
The court date was made to disappear for me
You think you understand me,
But never what I went through
But you were never meant to,
I won't hold it against you
I take a ballpoint pen to play 'dot to dot'
With the cigarette burns,
Etched in my forearms
Forget me not, never let me stop
You'll just sit and watch,
It's your job to be patient so you'll let me off
So come with me, take a walk on the wild side
And see life in a day through a child's eyes
These dreams are all I have,
To hold me
When sleeps the only thing that I want,
To take me away, away
Okay, sessions over time to get back to the classroom,
I hate this lesson and I guess the teacher finds it hard too
You told me I should try my best but guess what
I still find this trigonometry a head fuck
Constantly told I'll never pass my GCSE's
I'll end up in Mac D's,
Serving burgers and cheese
But you told me I can do anything if I put my mind to it,
Mistakes make a change if you put a line through 'em
But lately, classmates think I'm crazy,
Turn up daily resembling Bill Bailey
And I ain't saying that I can't be groomed
Without new clothes or a shower it's hard to do
So after school you'll take me shopping for some new clothes
But they'll get taken off me,
When I get back to the group home
So come with me, take a walk on the wild side
And see life in a day through a child's eyes
These dreams are all I have,
To hold me
When sleeps the only thing that I want,
To take me away, away