Innocence

I wrote this song a number of years ago, not sure what was the catalyst that had me penning it but it still moves me each time I read over it.

xo

Khloe

Innocence

She woke up, bright and early
It was her thirteenth birthday
Looking forward to her day
No idea of what lay in store

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A child bride she will be
Her childhood murdered
Her innocence destroyed

Her mother was nervous
Watching her little girl play in the sun
Knowing what's going to happen
- because it happened to her

Chorus

He had been looking forward to this day
He had been watching her, closely
He'd spoken to her father and the price was set
As was the date

Chorus

Her mother got her dressed
in her pretty new white dress

She grew suspicious of what was to come
Her mother didn't cry often, not like this

Chorus

She arrived at the church
Holding her mother's hand
Her father there waiting
With that man she'd seen watching her
She realized why her mother was crying

Chorus

She started crying knowing what was to come
Her childhood over, a wife she would become
To a man who was nearly three times her age

A child bride she has become
Her childhood murdered
Her innocence destroyed

Just One More...

Just one more, one more serve.

Maybe with my belly full,

I won’t notice the hole in my soul.

To ease this ache,

To take the edge off your tongue.

Your words cut like a knife,

They tear me down,

Rip me apart.

Just one more, one more drink,

To help me keep it in.

I dare not show it.

You can’t see the damage you do.

Words so simple, yet so harsh.

Without thought you cut deep.

Without care you twist the knife,

Deep into my back,

Where you think I can’t see,

Or hear what you’ve done.

Just one more, one more shot.

As I lie here in the crisp white bed.

Sick again, illness has struck me down.

Yet, still I am rejected,

Forever unworthy.

As the physical pain heals,

I’m left with emotional agony.

Just one more, one more brick.

In the wall I build to surround me,

Maybe if I can make it high enough,

I can block out the pain,

Can focus on what I have,

Accept that it’s enough.