Filter in my Throat
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Adults always tell us
that they know best
They have more experience,
and time, they'll attest
They feed those words
Into our brains
Inject that message into
our infant veins
So we grow up
believing its true
Trusting in them
If only we knew
We don't stand a chance
Didn't get a fair start
To realize adults
Are all corrupt at heart
They're the worst people
With whom we'll ever interact
They poison our minds
Leave our souls cracked
This is the truth
You're all so scared to promote
I'm ripping out the filter that
They shoved down my throat
A child, right now, is hungry
standing in a grocery store
He's a scene so Big Sis can
Slip food out the back door
Teachers at school tell him
To trust the cops
Why so they can just send him
back to die at the hand of Pops?!
They tell us to have respect
and to bite our tongue
That's what she did last night
as her dad's fists swung
Her mother followed a lesson
she'd learned long ago
be seen and not heard
Or she'd get the next blow
She stays up all night
Afraid to die
Asleep every day in class
Teacher doesn't care why
Depressed or suicidal?
"Tell an adult you can trust"
But his parents are never home
his teachers look at him in disgust
You see he dyed his hair blue
and gauged his ears
Hoping it would draw their
attention to his tears
He raises his hand
Mrs. sees the cuts on his wrist
But her only advice is he'll never
get a job if he keeps his hair like this
Have our best interests at heart
It's only because they care...
Her mother is only letting her
Consume air
She calls her daughter fat
Demands she goes to the gym
Otherwise no dinner
"You'll thank me when you're slim"
She's so dizzy and tired
But the love in her mother's eyes
Was her happiest moment
Slipping on that prom dress 00 size
Her battered head is fuzzy
She can't comprehend
She tries to stay after class for help
Teacher just condescends
He got caught stealing out of lunch boxes
Big Sis tries to speak
They'll only listen to a guardian
They're guardian angle is meek
He's been left to fade
into his mental disease
They all saw the signs but no one
stopped him from hanging in the breeze
Her mom does her makeup
has to pin the dress all around
She smiles at her beautiful daughter
before they put her casket in the ground
This is the result of
our society today
We like to think that all children
have a safe place to lay
We convince ourselves
that someone else will intervene
See no evil
and we can keep our hands clean
Let me tell you right now
There is not a good adult in this place
Only the sick minded ones and the
ones who blame the human race
As if they're set apart somehow
They're better and good
because they didn't commit
They just watched and stood
This is the truth
we're all to scared to promote
But I'm pulling out this filter
which they shoved down my throat
To stop me from sharing and
giving voice to these girls and boys
Who's deaths everyday
have been nothing but white noise