This song is about a man I used to visit at the Berrimah Prison in Darwin when I was 11yrs old. He had been baptised in gaol and had come to know a friend of ours through a Christian prisoner correspondence program. He was serving time for robbing and killing a young man who had picked him up on the Stuart Hwy. Some years prior he had killed his step-father, citing that the man had sexually and physically abused him. He would tell my father and I stories of his life until one day I noted a disparity in one such account and he refused any further visits. He killed again 5 years after his release and remains in custody in Woolongong.

How does one get to a point where the taking of human life is so easy, and once there, can one hope to return to a “normal” state of existence without the compassion and support of a society that reserves such things only for the innocent?

Lyrics

HEY LITTLE GIRL
Was your daddy there did he treat you rough
Did your mama give you the wrong kind of love
How did you come to be driving down that road

And how do you find your way
Make your place, hide your shame
What do you do to find peace within your soul

Hey little girl what do you see
With your innocent eyes looking back at me
Nothing I am is who I’m meant to be

Bridge And I know it’s a lonely place
And I know you can’t replace your dreams
With an empty space inside
And I know it’s not me you fear
You’re alone trapped inside yourself
But it feels like something else

Was your daddy there did he treat you rough
Did your mama give you the wrong kind of love
How did you come to be driving down that road

How many demons to crucify all that is real
The deeper I sink into nothing the less that I feel
If I beg for forgiveness can I shed the cross that I bear
If hell is the path that I’m on seems I’m already there

Repeat Bridge

And I know