Power and Control
you are controlling what i do
you are controlling whom i see
to justify your actions
you try to use jealousy
your'e making me feel guilty
pretend i am to blame
you look at me with gestures
and you know that i'm afraid
i am facing a huge decline
in the way that i live
the children and i suffer
as i have lack of things to give
i have no access to money
as you hide it all away
then you'll go out binging
and then disappear for days
you grew up in a violent home
abused as a young child
to you this is normal
but none of it's worthwhile
you may well of thought
that acting tough was right
we don't want to get hurt
and we're not looking for a fight
why must you have your orders obeyed
you have many highs and lows
one moment your'e so loving
then in a blink your anger shows
your ideas they are traditional
about what a real man should be
this surely isn't right
we're a family you see
we are imprisoned without trial
a hopeless dream of escape
i go on with false smiles
my happiness i fake
there are secrets that i keep
a silence i maintain
this is all i seem to know
it's how i ease my pain
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