What will we do? Lyric Feedback /Country Lyric/ Charlie from Alabama
by Charlie
(Alabama)
This is an older Lyric I wrote.I have rewritten it several times. I think it has a powerful message.I would appreciate some feedback on this one.
What will we do?
He threw her away,
Like an old newspaper he'd already read.
He got all he wanted,
Last night, when he took her to his bed.
As he turned the covers back,
It was as if he'd turned a page,
on a chapter of his life.
One more mistake that he has made.
What will she do? What will she do?
Nine months later,
In the back room of a clinic south of main.
A baby boy is born,
With no father there, to give the child, a name.
The child is handed to a stranger.
Then the money changes hands.
A mother can't help but wonder,
If her boy will ever understand.
What she had to do? What she had to do.?
Chorus
And the circle goes unbroken
as the truth remains unspoken.
When nothing changes, don’t expect it to.
While we look for the answer
a mistake
becomes a cancer.
Leaving us to wonder,
what will we do? What will we do?
The boy grew up,
With a question he was too afraid to ask.
There's no future,
If you're always looking for your past.
But he found someone who loved him,
And one night things went too far.
He became his father's son
In the back seat of a car.
Now, what will he do? What will he do?
And the circle goes unbroken
and the truth remains unspoken.
When nothing changes, don’t expect it to.
While we look for the answer
A mistake
becomes a cancer.
Leaving us to wonder,
What will we do? What will we do?