Like Them - Babybird

I will kill you

Said the five-year-old

As he left his knives

At the school gate

So I took her home

Locked all the doors

I’ll teach you here

About boys like that

Please don’t go and turn out like them

Please don’t go and grow up like that

I could walk to school

All on my own

No tag in my leg

No cell phone

I was not afraid

I was weaponless

But now I keep a knife

Just in case

Please don’t go and turn out like them

Please don’t go and turn out like them

Please don’t go and turn out like them

I can’t take photographs

You make me guilty

Watching my kids in the swimming pool

I will kill you if you touch them

I don’t care if it’s your parent’s fault

I’m sick of being the light all the time

Watching my P’s and Q’s all the time

I’m sick of being polite

Please don’t go and turn out like them

(Please don’t go and turn out like them)

Please don’t go and turn out like them

(Please don’t go and turn out like them)

Please don’t go and turn out like them

(Please don’t go and turn out like them)

I will love you despite everything

Make you feel safe at any cost

I will drag you back from the building

And give you back what you have lost

(Give you back what you have lost)

Give you back what you have lost

(Give you back what you have lost)

Give you back what you have lost

(Make you safe at any cost)

Give you back what you have lost