Growing Pains

Left hand writing on the page
Learning how to act my age
Trigger pull the bullets run
It's good to know I'm not still numb
I don't want to let you down
Simple words have found me out
Looking down I'm on the edge
I let it out till nothing's left

I never meant to desert you
It hurts to feel betrayed
Where did the time go a child knows
The games as adults play
Out of my body I'm sorry
We're living this again
Growing up is not the same as growing older
Growing pains

Doctor tell me what's the trick
Is this a problem you can fix
I've been to meetings once a week
The broken cannot heal the bleak

I never meant to desert you
It hurts to feel betrayed
Where did the time go a child knows
The games as adults play
Out of my body I'm sorry
We're living this again
Growing up is not the same as growing older
Growing pains
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Weight of worry only grows
With a child of my own
Generations in repeat
I want it all to stop with me

I never meant to desert you
It hurts to feel betrayed
Where did the time go a child knows
The games as adults play
Out of my body I'm sorry
We're living this again
Growing up is not the same as growing older
Getting by is not the same as getting over
Growing pains