When I was nine it was time To learn life is not fine That words can be weapons For bullies like mine. That friendship is fleeting And happiness is cheating And my heart takes a beating And I was just nine. When I was ten, it was then That I learned from some men How boundaries broken Look a whole lot like sin. And safety was stolen, And trust just a token And trauma awoken And I was just ten. CHORUS: There’s beauty from ashes And though I have flashes Of pain, when it gashes My soul, I’m gonna be alright. Those memories, they last 50 years in the past Feel like yesterday, That child, that boy, Who some would destroy Has his reckoning. CHORUS: There’s beauty from ashes And though I have flashes Of pain, when it gashes My soul, I’m gonna be alright. When all’s said and done, What was said, what was done Does not dictate What I have become.
