Hey Jamie, this is Dusty from joel stop him. Here are the lyrics to Bells:
"Every 11 seconds, a child is hit and it's become apparent that the parents are the people doing it. It's pretty sad when a mom or dad can't handle the stress that comes with paying bills and raising kids and all of the rest of the responsibilities that you take on when you grow up; the pressures that define authority and make it tough. But that doesn't mean that it's OK for mom or dad to come home and beat their kids because of the day they had. It doesn't make it all right for them to make their kids feel like it's their fault because of something that they did. Then they leave the child alone, confused and upset with no one and no place to go. In public they are Superman (the Man of Steel), but behind closed doors they are frauds (straight fakes) who treat their kids like filth and who beat them to teach them (teach them nothing) how worthless and stupid they are. They make them feel so weak (they make them insecure) when in reality they are so strong (they have to grow up fast). I never was abused, but for all of you who were: this is your song.
Sometimes I feel as though I wasted half my life away on you.
And I will never be like you cause I remember all the ups and downs. You used to experience and take out on me when there was no one around. And I know you saw me suffer, I know you let me cry, I know I never could have done enough to make you treat me right.
Sometimes I feel as though I wasted half my life away on you.
And you'd just watch as you sat back and ignored me, and my plea, and the torment I underwent. And the time I spent in seclusion, ashamed to be myself, cold and alone when I got home. I couldn't run. I was too young. So I was forced to bear the title of a good for nothing son. I ain't your good for nothing son.
Hitting a child solves nothing. You want someone to blame? Then try blaming yourself. You're the one who took on the task that caused the problem. Not the little innocent child you took it out on. But you don't care cause you're so selfish. The little child screams out loud:
I believed in you because you always said that we were best friends. No matter what I did, no matter what I said, I could count on you through thick and thin. It wasn't you, it was a lie I was believing in. And now I see, and now I realize the truth. You always said you couldn't take the stress I placed on you. But I was just a kid, and if I did, I never meant to. I never meant to put you through what I put you through.
Sometimes I feel as though I wasted half my life away on you.
And I will never be like you cause I remember all the ups and downs. You used to experience and take out on me when there was no one around. And I know you saw me suffer, I know you let me cry, I know I never could have done enough to make you treat me right.
Sometimes I feel as though I wasted half my life away on you.
And you'd just watch as you sat back and ignored me, and my plea, and the torment I underwent. And the time I spent in seclusion, ashamed to be myself, cold and alone when I got home. I couldn't run. I was too young. So I was forced to bear the title of a good for nothing son. I ain't your good for nothing son."
Hope that helped!
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