Now i lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
If i should die before i wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take.
He repeated it over and over,
Trying to convince himself that the lord had heard him,
But he didn't believe,
To him the bible was full of lies and short stories,
How could he?,
grew up in poverty,
seen stuff that should have blinded him,
and society labeled him as a monster,
too many times had he been lied to.
too many times.
Now i lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
If i should die before i wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take.
He repeated it cause he was not promised tomorrow,
wasn't scared of fate cause he grew up through violence and sorrow,
he was living on the edge,
about to fall off,
he got on his knees,
but he didn't believe,
he just had a little hope that if there was a god he would understand,
cause he had trapped himself in a jail of his own making,
the streets had made him numb,
he could no longer feel or love,
and the sounds of the guns blast,
made him deaf from the sweet little voice that called him dad.
Now i lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
If i should die before i wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take.
You see his father was never there for him,
so this dad did not yet know how to be a man,
and his daughter,
would fall under the category of children living under single mothers,
she would grow up through a struggle,
and although she would become stronger,
she would later be raped by a man much older,
and as the six year old girl bowed her head,
and folded her hands before she went to bed,
the following words flowed through her head.
Now i lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
If i should die before i wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take.
The cycle will never end of parents abandoning there kids till you take a stand,
see bettering yourself now is bettering the seeds of tomorrow,
and although we are all in search of heaven on earth,
we are not promised tomorrow and so i pray...
Now i lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep,
If i should die before i wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take.
