Will You Be There?

An Irish child stares into my eyes
With a backdrop of dinner, wine, politics
She asks me where her mothers been
And what I did when I heard her cries

I drove her through your college town
She saw the single room where you drown
But in your brain feast on your body
For that crown that stripped you from your voice
And down

She turned to me and sang, "If you knew,
Why didn't you say?"

I wanna hear that voice you left for dead
I wanna tell your daughter that you were fed
When you whisper kid,"Will you be there?"
I wanna scream out, "Yes, I swear!"

-Instrumental-

And mines back home and Jeanya slowly
Stripes all the meat from her bones
Hiked inside of her glowing clothes
And she froze while she slept alone

I turned to you and thought that I did not say

I wanna hear that voice you left for dead
I wanna tell your daughter that you were fed
When you whisper kid,"Will you be there?"
I wanna scream out, "Yes, I swear!"

-Instrumental-

She froze underneath the summer sun
She said it's colder when you've got no one
She froze underneath the summer sun
And her Irish child stared into my eyes
And said, "Lay down your gun and sing"

I wanna hear that voice you left for dead
I wanna tell your daughter that you were fed
When you whisper kid,"Will you be there?"
I wanna scream out, "Yes, I swear!"