Like Them - text

I will kill you said the five-year-old
as he left his knives at the school gates
So I took her home, locked all the doors
I’ll teach you here about boys like that

Please don’t go and turn out like them
Please don’t go and grow up like that

I could could walk to school all on my own
No tag in my leg, no cell phone
I was not afraid
I was weaponless, but now I keep a knife just in case

Please don’t go and turn out like that
Please don’t go and turn out like that
Please don’t go and turn out like that

I can’t take photographs, you make me guilty
Watching my kids in the swimming pool
I will kill you if you touch them
I don’t care if it’s your parent’s fault
I’m sick of being polite, all the time
Watching my p’s and q’s, all the time
I’m sick of being polite….

Please don’t go and turn out like that
Please don’t go and turn out like that
Please don’t go and turn out like that
Please don’t go and turn out like that

I will love you despite everything
Make you feel safe at any cost
I will drag you back from the building edge
Give you back what you have lost
Give you back what you have lost
Make you safe any cost
Give you back what you have lost