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[00:01.93][Intro: newscaster]
[00:02.43]Alan Morton for Lifestyle News
[00:03.87]Out top story for tonight is child abuse
[00:06.61]And the effects it has on the family structure
[00:08.86]Film at 11
[00:09.71][Verse 1]
[00:10.40]Damn, every time I turn on the news
[00:13.19]Somewhere, somehow another child is being abused
[00:15.69]I’m confused
[00:16.94]What kind of people do we live among?
[00:18.64]They must be sick doing the things that’s being done
[00:21.59](See what I’m saying y’all)
[00:22.52]Young children being raped and battered
[00:24.58]Or they’re falling victim to the ratta-tat-tatter
[00:27.78]Who protects them? Who respects them?
[00:29.99]When their own family neglect them
[00:31.62]It’s time we check them
[00:32.92](yo, check these mothers)
[00:33.64]And let them know that we can’t have this
[00:35.08]Type of madness
[00:35.97]Scaring our kids for life and putting others in their casket
[00:38.52]It’s time we made a change today
[00:40.46]So there won’t be no more mothers to hear their child say
[00:43.36][Chorus]
[00:43.81]Mommy, mommy, please don’t leave
[00:46.29]‘Cause Chester’s got something up his sleeve
[00:49.20]And if you leave then I can’t sleep
[00:51.69]‘Cause Chester’s gonna put his hands on me
[00:54.58]Mommy, mommy, please don’t leave
[00:57.03]‘Cause Chester’s got something up his sleeve
[00:59.78]And if you leave then I can’t sleep
[01:02.52]‘Cause Chester’s gonna put his hands on me
[01:04.56][Verse 2]
[01:04.91]Now, A mother cries, slumped over a dead body
[01:07.56]A teenage girl in the corner screams
[01:09.61]“I’m sorry mommy”
[01:11.00]Her mother wants to know one thing, Why?
[01:13.30]Here’s the words of a girl too scared to lie
[01:15.94]She said, “It happened to me first when I was nine
[01:18.44]He burst in my room and told me I was fine
[01:21.02]He sat me on his knee and said that he loved me
[01:23.72]And in his dirty strange ways, he touched me
[01:27.01]That night you worked late at Macy’s
[01:29.36]Mom I prayed that you would come home and save me
[01:31.85]Cause he did these things, these nasty things to me, Ma
[01:35.44]These things, these nasty things
[01:37.54]And I thought I would die from the pain
[01:40.08]It was crazy”, the young girl explained
[01:43.01]“When he was through with me he looked down and said
[01:45.41]You tell anyone, your mom and you, you’re dead”
[01:48.50]She feared for their lives so she stayed quiet
[01:51.25]Five years of being raped and being silent
[01:54.26]1,825 days she suffered
[01:56.67]From a man who says I do this because I love ya
[02:00.06]Now she’s 14 and can’t take no more
[02:02.01]And she knew he kept a gun in his dresser drawer
[02:04.61]So she got it, she saw him, she cocked it
[02:07.46]She said I hate you Uncle Chester, that’s why I got to stop it
[02:10.56][Chorus]
[02:10.85]Who protects our children
[02:13.15]From the grownups touchy feeling?
[02:15.79]Now what kind of world do we live in
[02:18.43]When you abuse our children?
[02:22.25]Mommy, mommy, please don’t leave
[02:24.12]‘Cause Chester’s got something up his sleeve
[02:26.77]And if you leave then I can’t sleep
[02:29.30]‘Cause Chester’s gonna put his hands on me
[02:32.32][Verse 2]
[02:32.92]Now, who protects our children
[02:34.47]From the grownups and their touchy feeling?
[02:36.17]Do we let our kids kill or someone kill them?
[02:38.41]Parents don’t be blind to a developing young mind
[02:40.95]Guiding starts at home and I’m going teach mine
[02:43.40]Hey young world, I know it’s crazy out there
[02:46.19]I know they’re bigger and stronger and they get you really scared
[02:49.14]But you have to find someone that you can trust
[02:51.55]So they can help you put an end to this madness
[02:54.53]You are not alone no matter what people have told ya
[02:57.48]Many have been abused from the unknown to Oprah
[03:00.37]Now what I’m saying is let’s make a change today
[03:02.52]So you won’t be the next to hear your child say
[03:05.56][Chorus] [Repeats]
[03:44.62]God bless our children