[00:05.921] When I was nine I learned survival
[00:09.169] Taught myself not to care
[00:12.998] I was my single good companion
[00:16.989] Taking my comfort there
[00:20.338] Up in my room I planned my conquests
[00:24.470] On my own; never asked for a helping hand
[00:30.507] No one would understand
[00:36.171] I never asked the pair who fought below
[00:41.215] Just in case they said no
[00:50.229] Pity the child who has ambition
[00:54.784] Knows what he wants to do
[00:57.879] Knows that he'll never fit the system
[01:02.094] Others expect him to
[01:05.502] Pity the child who knew his parents
[01:09.853] Saw their faults
[01:11.405] Saw their love die before his eyes
[01:15.967] Pity the child that wise
[01:21.347] He never asked "Did I cause your distress?"
[01:27.528] Just in case they said yes
[01:33.290] When I was twelve my father moved out
[01:39.579] Left with a whimper, not with a shout
[01:45.505] I didn't miss him, he made it perfectly clear
[01:53.242] I was a fool and probably queer
[01:59.342] Fool that I was I thought this would bring
[02:05.591] Those he had left closer together
[02:12.664] She made her move the moment he crawled away
[02:17.572] I was the last the woman told
[02:21.875] She never let her bed get cold
[02:26.366] Someone moved in: I shut my door
[02:30.602] Someone to treat her just the same way as before
[02:40.652] I took the road of least resistance
[02:44.035] I had my game to play
[02:47.729] I had the skill, and more: the hunger
[02:51.368] Easy to get away
[02:54.915] Pity the child with no such weapons
[02:58.716] No defence, no escape from the ties that bind
[03:04.289] Always a step behind
[03:09.518] I never called to tell her all I'd done
[03:15.398] I was only her son!
[03:44.778] Pity the child but not forever
[03:48.057] Not if he stays that way
[03:51.652] He can get all he ever wanted
[03:55.400] If he's prepared to pay
[03:59.106] Pity instead the careless mother
[04:02.861] What she missed
[04:04.125] What she lost when she let me go
[04:08.487] And I wonder does she know
[04:13.491] I wouldn't call: a crazy thing to do
[04:19.516] Just in case she said who?