Song Description
It's a sad song but crosses racial, gender and age lines.
| Song Length |
3:37 |
Genre |
Rock - Easy Listening, Country - Rockabilly |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Disturbed, Disconcerted |
Subject |
Judgement, Anger |
| Similar Artists |
Elton John, Aretha Franklin |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1980 - 1989 |
| |
Lyrics
YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR CHILD
VERSE I
Caught your show down in Clarkville, Tennessee.
All these years I have wondered, I have suffered,
So much violence my body has endured.
Now I can see...
What they must have noticed.
Every time they looked at me.
And, you don't even see me.
It's just a damn disgrace.
CHORUS:
You don't know your child
(You wouldn't know me on the street).
You don't know me, had you...
(You wouldn't have the nerve to sing)
About your heavenly, family reunion.
You don't know your child.
(Really, really tore me up).
You don't know me, I had...
(I had to go and look you up).
Don't you dare preach down to me.
I believe.
I can find the way.
VERSE II
Caught your show down in Clarksville, Tennessee,
Space in time but it seemed like I hadn't slept a wink.
Since the day I was born,
I never was...
A child, what really burns me up,
So many people knew it,
And wouldn't even help me.
Not even someone like you.
Instrumental on the chorus fade out.