These Dreams

I keep my hopes and dreams inside of you amongst the other things

My mother seems to never see the bruises that I'm covering

Never been known as my government name

My foster home is where I've been placed away from the pain

And now you sit before me with a folder holding my story

You're my savior with nothing on me but power and glory

And surely you'll never ignore me, 'cause when the the call came

The court date was made to disappear for me

You think you understand me, but never what I went through

But you were never meant to, I won't hold it against you

I take a ballpoint pen to play dot to dot

With the cigarette burns etched in my forearms

Forget me not, never let me stop

You'll just sit and watch, it's your job to be patient, so you'll let me off

So come with me, take a walk on the wild side

See life in a day through a child's eyes

And these dreams are all I have to hold me

When sleep's the only thing that I want to take me away, away

Okay, session's over, time to get back to the classroom

I hate this lesson and I guess the teacher finds it hard too

You told me I should try my best, but guess what?

I still find this trigonometry a head fuck

Constantly told I won't pass my GCSE's

I'll end up in Micky D's serving burgers and cheese

But you told me I can do anything if I put my mind to it

Mistakes make a change if you put a line through 'em

Lately classmates think I'm crazy

Turn up daily resembling Bill Bailey

And I ain't saying that I can't be groomed with it

Without new clothes or shower it's hard to do

So after school you'll take me shopping for some new clothes

But they'll get taken off me when I get back to the group home

So come with me, take a walk on the wild side

See life in a day through a child's eyes

And these dreams are all I have to hold me

When sleep's the only thing that I want to take me away, away