Skinnyman - Children in Need lyrics

[Chorus] Don't know why the birds aren't singing Don't know why darkness realms [Verse 1: Skinnyman] I don't know why the birds ain't singing for me But did they did they sing the same in the cage as when they're free? Is it because they lock up, we know that's not where they're supposed to be Like all my peoples in the bing reflecting life's reality Or for my kids in care who feel the need for family Growing up in a system with no sense of security It's like a dark cloud surrounding their mentality Overshadowing everything that they're trying to achieve How can they have hope in believing; exposed to the ways of the streets And everybody has their reason for deceiving Cheating and misleading Crushing everything that they've been dreaming By the time they reach their teens then they have to face the demons Trying to find the meaning of why people continue scheming When you find the reason it's leaving your heart bleeding Now your lost needing the feeling of being found But until we are getting the healing darkness will surround us [Chorus 2x] [Verse 2: L.Man] I write this song for the girl who was stuck in care Blinded from love, emotionally shut Sexually abused by keen workers Who used to prey on kids like [?] She used to pray to God but he never answered back Cried herself to sleep sometimes A couple sleepless nights When she went to school she would always draw pictures of dead people and always put her name beside the body Snobby girls of authority used to bully her call her names push her out the dinner line at lunch break And then she used to run back to the children's home and call her biological mother but mumsy didn't pick up the phone In the weeks she would leave voice messages Saying 'Mum I really miss ya I still got your picture Still kiss it every night before I go sleep And I still pray to the lord like you always taught me Just give me a call' But things done change She got adopted by a single mother of eight[?] She found it hard to love beating up a younger brother for attention Out of control her mum used to phone the jigs[?] She couldn't take no more Social services got involved They took her to new foster parent in [?] She couldn't settle down By the age of eighteen she was nicking cars Went to Holloway prison for girls for nine months Then she came out, she started smoking weed Got her self a drug dealer boyfriend from Aberdeen Selling crack and h**n to receive some love Unprotected s** led to a baby with nothing much Except a crackhead dad and a mum that was clinically depressed She started smoking her own work to relieve her stress But crack weren't enough She found h**n was the one She used to put her mind at rest A pain reliever as such I didn't know this sh** was happening until last Christmas When she came round to speak to my mum She used to be healthy and plump Now she looks anaemic Blacker than ice Skinny as f** I swear now I said 'you look bad But she couldn't look at me Voice slurred she said 'your making me for worse, please' I said 'I'm not leaving you alone in this state You're my big sister' Then a tear rolled down her skinny pale face 'Talk to me' [Chorus 4x]