HAVE YOU EVER

HAVE YOU EVER

Have you ever lived my life?

Spent one minute in my shoes?

If you haven’t then tell me why

You judge me as you do.

Have you ever woken up in the morning

Wondering if this was your last day on Earth?

Have you ever left your house

Unsure if you’d return?

Have you ever seen your friend get shot

Outside his favourite store?

Have you ever seen a friend die

From drugs he’d never used before?

Have you ever seen your mom get beat up

By your stepdad messed up on booze?

Have you ever had an unwanted pregnancy

Forcing you to choose?

Have you ever sat beneath the stars

Hoping God will hear?

Have you ever seen your friend drive away

After way too many beers?

Have you ever had a friend

Experiment with weed?

Have you ever covered up guilt

By doing a good deed?

Have you ever considered suicide

As the only way?

Have you ever tried to hide yourself

Behind the things you say?

Have you ever wanted to protect

Your friends and everyone in sight?

Have you ever felt such pain

That you cried yourself to sleep at night?

Have you ever lived my life,

Spent one minute in my shoes?

If you haven’t, then tell me why

You judge me as you do.