Stuart Davis - The Suffering You Knew lyrics

The hallways are empty, the playground is still But the schoolboy inside me can't leave here until I've said to some children what's long overdue I'm sorry for all of the suffering you knew Words were our weapons, and pain was our tool And for no certain reasons we treated you cruel I guess that I seek your forgiveness because I'm still so ashamed of the boy that I was The younger the mind, the weaker the will I kept searching my peers for a space I could fill I did what they wanted, took part in their sins It's frightening what children will do to fit in But now we're all older with kids of our own And they say names can't hurt them like stick or like stones If I only could teach them compa**ion and truth Cause words hurt the worst in the years of your youth The hallways are empty, the playground is still But the schoolboy inside me can't leave here until I've said to some children what's long overdue I'm sorry for all of the suffering you knew