I Want To Tell Them It's All Right

These screams are piercing the night
And the kids are doubling up in fright
The sirens never stop or cease
Half these people won't be in one piece
But you can't blame this on life
Fate decides the future and cuts it with a knife

And I want to point out to the dad that his kid won't come home
I want to show the girlfriend that she won't have to give him a loan
But I can't say anything, anything at all, at all
This terror pierces and I want to fall, I want to fall

I want to say that her daughter will always be in a chair
I want to tell the man his drunk driving ruined lives without a care
But I can't say anything, anything at all, at all
This terror pierces and I want to fall, I want to fall

I need to make him understand he'll never move that arm again
This fall splintered his bone and some things never will have been
His arm is dying, dying, dying and I promise he is dying too
But how do you saying dying to someone that much younger than you

I want to yell and shout and scream that no, she won't be all right
We can take her to the hospital but she won't survive the night
But I can't say that to a husband crying oceans out in vain
I can't stop crazy tears of his that are falling like acid rain

I want to have him know that that misplaced knife means she'll always be blind
I want to make him comprehend that this was not God's act of kind
I know there's nothing behind that sad, sad gaze that'll give me any hope
But I have to save these lives and I can't sit around and mope

I want to tell, I want to shout, I want to cry out something to say
But this screaming voice of mine will never last another day
So let me live and make me sure, 'cause I'll never be all right
And even if I make through this dark and stormy night
I don't know if I can take this hard, cold pain
I want to be able to know if I will live again

I want to tell them that it's over, this rain is long past done
And even if he kills, in the end nobody's won
I want to make them know that everything's never going to be all right
But most of all I want them to make it through this night
So when the ambulance is driving these slick roads on its way home
I'm going to say a prayer for souls lost and bodies that will always roam

I want to disappear into the skies and say that everything's all right
And when people ask I want to tell, I want to tell them lies
But I know tomorrow I'll go out and do the same
So could you let me know that for once I'm not to blame

I want to tell, I want to say, I want to shout out all my fears
But no one gets what they want and so I'll spend the long night here.



~Copyright Ivy Leaves 2001