Latch Key Kid

So many stories to be told across the ages young and old.
Could it be that weve become immune to all we hear on daytime news,
Where is the passion to unite?
Because divided we cant fight all the troubles in this life.

Theres so many things that we are fighting. Yeah.
Theres so many people out there trying. Yeah.
And theres a little girl only six years old.
Her daddy does drugs.
Her mamas on the road.
Shes a latchkey kid before shes even grown.

What we really need to do is give the girl a chance.
Put her on the road where theres no way back,
To a life that shes always known.

We gotta do something. Yeah.

Cant do nothing. Yeah.

A&E is full of life.
Somebodys son got in a fight.

Doctors say its touch and go,
So nobodys going home.
Friday night is where it starts.

Kids all high and having fun.

There will be a loss of life.

Trivial things that start a fight.

Theres so many things we could be fighting. Yeah.

But do we give a damn and are we trying? Yeah.

And theres a little girl only six years old.
Her daddy does drugs.
Her mamas on the road.
Shes a latchkey kid before shes even grown.

What we really need to do is give the girl a chance.
Put her on the road where theres no way back,
To a life that shes always known.

We gotta do something. Yeah.

Cant do nothing. Yeah.
Its a crazy world were living in. Yeah.

Its a crazy world were living in. Yeah.
Across town in a club, a girls on the floor.
Shes lying in the dark.
She did it once before.
Her bodys full of drugs.
She did it for a rush.
Dont it make you wonder just how many more?
We gotta do something; its not right.
Cant keep saying our hands are tied.
Gotta do something but its too late:
Therell be another mother digging a grave.
Theres so many things that we are fighting. Yeah.
But do we give a damn and are we trying? Yeah.
And theres a little girl only six years old.
Her daddy does drugs.
Her mamas on the road.
Shes a latchkey kid before shes even grown.

What we really need to do is give the girl a chance.
Put her on the road where theres no way back,
To a life that shes always known.

We gotta do something. Yeah.

Cant do nothing. Yeah.

Its a crazy world were living in. Yeah.

Its a crazy world were living in. Yeah.

The worlds gone crazy that we are living in.
The worlds gone crazy that we are seeing in.

The worlds gone crazy more than a little bit.

The worlds gone crazy. Yeah.

The worlds gone crazy that we are living in.

The worlds gone crazy that we are seeing in.

The worlds gone crazy more than a little bit.
The worlds gone crazy.