| Sweet sixteen with big dreams
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| As beautiful as a beauty queen
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| World at her fingertips it would seem
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| But another world lived that goes unseen
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| Behind the darkness and behind the screens
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| The echoing of her silent screams
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| Tear drops forward rain down like streams
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| She buries her face up in a magazine
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| She can’t believe this is happening
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| She gave everything that she had to him
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| When she told him she was having his kid
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| He turned his back and ran away and hid
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| And now she’s got nowhere to go
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| Daddy walked out on her years ago
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| So I guess that’s how things go
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| In a world where nobody knows
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| Now daddy’s all alone
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| And he’s too proud to pick up the phone
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| Sitting in his arm chair on his own
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| Drinking and smoking his heart to stone
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| Reminiscing on the days of old
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| He built a house he couldn’t build a home
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| He built four walls round a heart of stone
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| Now he’s slipping to the back of the blackest hole
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| Open your eyes and dream
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| Open your eyes and believe
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| Open your eyes and dream
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| Open your eyes and believe
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| Across the globe to a dusty road
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| Where a little boy sits all alone
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| He’s far from home walked through night
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| Searching for a ray of light
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| A spark of hope and glimpse of chance
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| As he holds up both his hand
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| He lifts them high up to the sky
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| And as he cries he asks out why
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| Mom and dad both died of AIDS
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| He’s nine years old with two kids to raise
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| He’s got no time to play
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| Hasn’t had food since yesterday
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| And as his life just slips away
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| Again he prays for just one more day
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| Prays his fears away
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| Please God wipe my tears away
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| Open your eyes and dream
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| Open your eyes and believe
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| Open your eyes and dream
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| Open your eyes and believe
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| You wanna be in a place where you feel like you can call home
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| Somewhere there is no hatred, no wrong doing, no harm
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| Confess I live my life to the fullest, no stopping me
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| Even if my past tries to break me down, I’m breaking free
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| Oh you gotta fight for your destiny
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| Let go of all your doubts and your disbelief
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| Today is your pursuit of happiness, so please don’t rest
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| Open your eyes and see, and you will find you’re free
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| Open your eyes and dream
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| Open your eyes and believe
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| Open your eyes and dream
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| Open your eyes and believe |