I close my eyes, go rewind back to the days in middle school Where every kid is cruel Happily attacking the weak and miserable The popular crew reigned supreme, thinking “yeah this shit is cool!” I look back now, sick to my stomach, how they treated him was pitiful David came to our school in 8th grade, an easy target They said his hair was thick and slimy like a greasy carpet They shoved him in the fucking trash can like a piece of garbage No beef was startin’ They were just teasing, they were just feasting off it See David had a cleft palate, he had a speech impediment Duh duh David! They’d sarcastically try to teach him rhetoric Diagnosing the state his head is in by force-feeding him medicine They mentally broke that motherfucker down until they reached the sediment They reveled in the fact that something wasn’t right in his brain The way his hands trembled, mouth drooled as he was writing his name His life was a game to all of them, they kept igniting the flames All the while, David tried to be tame, quietly fighting the pain
Fire's burning all around Ashes falling to the ground Someone save me Set me free The smoke it settles on my skin Don't play with fire you'll never win Someone save me Help me breathe
The more he tried being segregated, the more they would mess with David It went way beyond messing, nah the torment escalated They started rumors about how he was heavily medicated Once in an asylum, sedated, white walls, fully vegetated That’s why he had special classes, completely separated It’s like they dedicated their whole lives to keep him devastated They began roughing him up, and David felt his life trapped A vicious cycle: light taps Crescendo into ice packs They spit on him, taunting and mocking, “Yeah pussy you like that?!” Strength in numbers, David didn’t have the strength to fight back Until one day, Michelle Jones found some courage and stuck up for him Next day, word through the halls: She was a slut, fucking him And after that, no matter how ruthless or unsettling You best keep pedaling past the violence their entire crew was peddling You were the next target if they found out that you were meddling And everyone in the school saw David’s agony and no one said a thing
Fire's burning all around Ashes falling to the ground Someone save me Set me free The smoke it settles on my skin Don't play with fire you'll never win Someone save me Help me breathe
Nine months of abuse from the beginning of August to May He harbored his hate, told himself it was a part of his day Behind his broken eyes, you could tell that he was far from okay Hungry for refuge, starving away Heart scarred and decayed And how did they justify all of this? They were just goofing off! The truth was tossed so carelessly In hindsight, you can scoff But do you think any of these foolish teenagers knew the cost of what happens when you vandalize the soul of someone who is lost? The pain was over a couple hours before their graduation David was nowhere to be found The entire crew was laughing making jokes about the fucked up stuff David was watching while masturbatin’ Ignoring all the consequences of their constant lacerations But instead, David sat at home alone in his bed Completely despondent to the world, he put the chrome to this head He closed his eyes and BANG! In a moment was dead Next to his lifeless body, he scribbled a note and it said
Fire's burning all around Ashes falling to the ground Someone save me Set me free The smoke it settles on my skin Don't play with fire you'll never win Someone save me Help me breathe
See tragedy strikes when we think there’s no true solution We spew pollution with the verbal bullets we’re used to shooting We bully others fully smothered by insecurity David, wherever you are, I hope that you can hear this plea To anyone else on the same path, please don’t mirror me Cuz the fact of the matter is: I was the fucking mastermind David’s suicide wasn’t asinine; it was a nasty crime You don’t fucking treat a human being like that to pass the time Look at the consequences I made an innocent kid blast a nine His broken family cradling each other, mom and dad are crying That image eats at me, nightmares and therapy repeatedly Conceitedly tried convincing myself that he died peacefully God damn it! Why couldn’t I just fucking leave him be?! I can’t cope with the fact that the reason he’s deceased is me Bullying is not a joke, no! It’s a real issue Cuz David, though I never really knew you, I still miss you…Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
