Standing outside your window
On a cold and rainy night
Sweet sixteen you turn
Out with the candles light
Your father comes to visit
As clouds roll over head
Raindrop tears falling
As he leaves you weeping in your bed.

This is pain it scars you
This is life it mars you
This is pain it kills you
This is life it screws you

The crys of a child tearing through the sky
The fists of his parents
Leaving bruises out of sight
Standing in the chilling rain
Silent witness to the pain
As the tears of a child
Give the earth a kiss

This is pain it scars you
This is life it mars you
This is pain it kills you
This is life it screws you

I watch silently
All the world I see
Tears and screams and blood and agony
Every little boy and every little girl
Every abused child angry at the world
Trying to find a way to relieve
All of their suffering

This is pain it scars you
This is life it mars you
This is pain it kills you
This is life it screws you

Saw you standing on the corner
Lost and all alone
I could see it in your eyes
All their arrogance and lies
The agony of coming down
From so very high
I didn't know what to say
Didn't know what to do
But I had the arrogance
To think that I could heal you

This is pain it never goes away
We deal with it every day
We all have scars
Just some are out of sight
If I could
I'd hold you in my arms tonight
And with gentle kisses
Make everything allright.

This is pain it scars you
This is life it mars you
This is pain it kills you
This is life it screws you

This is hope for tomorrow
This is love to heal you
This is hope to guide you
This is love. I'll hold you.

all text Copyright Cary Preston Richards, 1999