Fred Small - Light in the HallLyrics

There's a light in the hall There's a crack in the doorway lets it into my room Tells me everything tells me everything I curl up in a ball Try to slide in the crack between the bed and the wall I am falling I am falling Daddy they'll know I'll walk funny and they'll know I've been bad Daddy please don't please don't please don't I'm shaking all over I squeeze my legs together just as tight as I can You can't you can't you can okay okay okay I see the tree through the window The tree is my friend I see the moon through the clouds And the stars without end I am flying away I am dying Is there a cradle big enough for this little girl It wouldn't have to be so very big For a girl and a teddy bear and a patchwork quilt It's waiting somewhere for me Don't you tell anyone If you know what's good for you And your little sister don't you love your sister And who would believe you Just a little girl with a big imagination Everyone knows me I'm an important man I get ready for school My hair is brushed and pulled tight in a bow But I am dirty I am dirty Mommy puts on my coat Red and purple blotches up and down my legs She won't look at me she won't look at me I will run to the park I will climb on the swing I will swing so high Up above everything Till a cloud takes me away Is there a cradle big enough for this little girl It wouldn't have to be so very big For a girl and a teddy bear and a patchwork quilt It's waiting somewhere for me Now I am grown On a silver chain I wear a pretty stone A friend gave me to say she loves me And to say I can love And to say I am worthy of it It is not easy it is not easy Sometimes I scream Sometimes I weep like the little girl I never was I never was I tell the story Somebody stole my life but I'm taking it back I can see colors I can see colors now Tracing the truth through the tangle of lies Forgiving myself what I did to survive I am living I am living Is there a cradle big enough for this little girl It wouldn't have to be so very big For a girl and a teddy bear and a patchwork quilt It's waiting somewhere for me