Tina Andrews
By: CGFB
Duration
5:02
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Look, little Tina Andrews riding on her bike, Around the coldasac really late one night In a good neighborhood where here parents raised her right Only eleven years old not a worry in sight She was getting straight A's and was really well behaved When her goldfish died she cried and prayed For the next ten years she'd grow up pretty slow Never got into drugs and had no where to go But come twenty one she decided she would leave Because her parents constant fighting wasn't leaving room to breathe So she moved to California so that she could see the sea She would never have guessed how hard life could really be She started as a waitress boyfriend got her into weed A couple years had passed and turned to ecstasy and speed The chase had burned her dollars and her hopes had turned to greed Along side all that she had another mouth to feed its the first of the month so there's money that she'll need But there's not a dime in sight it doesn't look like she'll succeed. So she spoke with her dealer asked him if he'd hook her up He thought for a moment and said sure what the fuck From that point on Ms. Andrews went dark She never took her children but was always at the park Till the day she was caught by the guy they call nark And when they took her kids it couldn't help but break her heart At the trial she plead guilty but said that it wasn't fair The judge just shrugged honestly he didn't care He said, "your getting locked up, and you have kids and im aware. They'll be children of the state and I hope they're treated fair." Gasping for air Tina breaks down to tears. Then after that she doesn't see her kids for years Five to be exact, trapped, with her worst fears Then another year or two of being judged by her peers When she finally saw her daughters felt like she had gone to heaven The oldest now thirteen and the younger one was seven It made her think back to when she was eleven Just riding on her bike in the coldasac at night Not really any problems because everything's alright And she never had to fight for herself or her kids And she prayed for the day that they both would forgive Her for getting locked up and leaving them all alone She promised she would never leave until the two had grown Then she got a job selling insurance, over the phone Despite how much she tried both her daughters kept a grudge She says that its unfair, but who is she to judge Tinas fifty three and has long been off her drugs But her younger daughters just about to start just because Tina doesn't know of course, her daughter moved away With a friendly handsome fellow that she met the other day She met him at a party where he let her try cocaine She took it just because she knew that mommy wouldn't like it She never would have thought it would have made her that excited She started using often cause she felt like it ignited Her body into action every time that she would try it Habit got so bad that there's no money left to buy it Now its been a few years since her daughters been away April fifteenth and Tina hopes that she's okay She's hears a phone ring but there's no good news today It was only muffled cries but she could make out what they'd say Tina, she had overdosed they did all that they could Will you identify the body I dont think that I should When Tina saw her daughter she thought that she couldn't speak There has been no other time in her life she felt that weak The funeral was grim and the days after much darker Tina blamed herself for the death of her daughter How could she not have listened to the things that she had taught her problems from her past that had put her in hot water Tina wished things had been different or shed been a better mother Or at least had had a chance to tell her daughter that she loved her Then made a promise that she'd be a great grandmother. Her daughter left alive is just about to have another. Tina now sixty three thinks about lifefrequently Watches her granddaughter play and wonders what type of person she'll be
