The moonlight filters through the darkening trees

Within, a small girl on bended knee

Sobbing to the heavens for what has been taken

And mourning the loss of all forsaken

Rising up, she musters strength

To endure the year’s harshest length

Pushing her hair back and away from her face

She sets her shoulders, standing firmly in place

A punch to the face, he rocks back on his heels

Shocked by the pain he so strongly feels

She takes off running and doesn’t look back

And thus doesn’t realize the speed that she lacks

Wipe the tears

Drive off the fears

Live again another year

A wild grab, a tumble and fall

She hasn’t reached safety after all

With her choice she fast comes to grips

And without a glance behind lands a solid kick

Bleeding and furious, he clutches his nose

The girl scrambles away with her ripped clothes

No call for help, can’t give herself away

Once she gets free, that’s where she hopes to stay

He claimed he loved her, the cops were told

And had taken advantage as soon as alone

Escaped from the man, but not from her mind

Lost in the nightmare she herself does find

Wipe the tears

Drive off the fears

Live again another year

Never does she recover from this

A doctor’s note clenched tight in her fist

For a depressed schizophrenic not much can be done

She battles herself, enemy number one

So misunderstood, alone in a crowd

Moping around with a permanent scowl

She lives in fear that he’ll come for her

So she contrives herself to leave this world

They found her with the empty bottle of pills

What could they do? They’d known she was ill

Now she was free, from mind and man

And given the choice, she’d take them again

Wipe the tears

Drive off the fears

Remember her another year