Childhood runs across the meadow, taken in the night 

told that you'll be working in the city for a while 


It 's peering from the windows it's leaning in the doorway 

flickering like a candle lying on the floor 


Say a prayer, say a prayer in the night 

Say a prayer, say a prayer in the night 


childhood working with your papa chained to you mom 

this is all you live for 

debts that linger on 


bearing all the glory, bearing all the weight 

knowledge of such hardship 

at such a tender age 


Say a prayer