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Cigarette Burns

from This Month's Rent by The Decay

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Social services are full of horror stories - the woman on "Winterlude" deals with these horror stories all the time.

This is about a mother with kids who does nothing to show any kind of care for them. They are abused and neglected by drug addicted loser parents - she has swinging door men in her life, and her notion of priorities is to take care of 'her man' before her children.

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pick it up angel and don't let them know
don't let them see you suffer
you can be hidden, just put up a wall
you can be hidden, just put up with hell
the babysitter is set channel 3
a Disney movie, lets you tune up free
you think its okay, if you don't let them know
you think it's okay,
when there's stains on the couch
they've got nothing to eat
you've got bruises on your arms
they have cigarette burns
the teachers wonder where
the parents are in all of this
what it takes is for one of them,
one of them to call social services
and take your kids away
take your kids away
I don't want to just
blame her Hell she was 6 months
pregnant when he left, left her
working two jobs the unemployment
rate, the poverty line your money
for groceries paid all his
fines telling them both it's
better this time but there's
needles on the stove and you said
you were discreet
police drive up
on your lawn case worker will
help you read and pick the
clothes to pack and you'll never
get them back broken mother with
two brats crying as they take
them away what a fucking
mess I know, I know It's
harder when it's you

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from This Month's Rent, released January 31, 2010

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