Chester-Dana Dane

[00:01.93][Intro: newscaster] [00:02.43]Alan Morton for Lifestyle News [00:03.87]Out top story for tonight is child abuse [00:06.61]And the effects it has on the family structure [00:08.86]Film at 11 [00:09.71][Verse 1] [00:10.40]Damn, every time I turn on the news [00:13.19]Somewhere, somehow another child is being abused [00:15.69]I’m confused [00:16.94]What kind of people do we live among? [00:18.64]They must be sick doing the things that’s being done [00:21.59](See what I’m saying y’all) [00:22.52]Young children being raped and battered [00:24.58]Or they’re falling victim to the ratta-tat-tatter [00:27.78]Who protects them? Who respects them? [00:29.99]When their own family neglect them [00:31.62]It’s time we check them [00:32.92](yo, check these mothers) [00:33.64]And let them know that we can’t have this [00:35.08]Type of madness [00:35.97]Scaring our kids for life and putting others in their casket [00:38.52]It’s time we made a change today [00:40.46]So there won’t be no more mothers to hear their child say [00:43.36][Chorus] [00:43.81]Mommy, mommy, please don’t leave [00:46.29]‘Cause Chester’s got something up his sleeve [00:49.20]And if you leave then I can’t sleep [00:51.69]‘Cause Chester’s gonna put his hands on me [00:54.58]Mommy, mommy, please don’t leave [00:57.03]‘Cause Chester’s got something up his sleeve [00:59.78]And if you leave then I can’t sleep [01:02.52]‘Cause Chester’s gonna put his hands on me [01:04.56][Verse 2] [01:04.91]Now, A mother cries, slumped over a dead body [01:07.56]A teenage girl in the corner screams [01:09.61]“I’m sorry mommy” [01:11.00]Her mother wants to know one thing, Why? [01:13.30]Here’s the words of a girl too scared to lie [01:15.94]She said, “It happened to me first when I was nine [01:18.44]He burst in my room and told me I was fine [01:21.02]He sat me on his knee and said that he loved me [01:23.72]And in his dirty strange ways, he touched me [01:27.01]That night you worked late at Macy’s [01:29.36]Mom I prayed that you would come home and save me [01:31.85]Cause he did these things, these nasty things to me, Ma [01:35.44]These things, these nasty things [01:37.54]And I thought I would die from the pain [01:40.08]It was crazy”, the young girl explained [01:43.01]“When he was through with me he looked down and said [01:45.41]You tell anyone, your mom and you, you’re dead” [01:48.50]She feared for their lives so she stayed quiet [01:51.25]Five years of being raped and being silent [01:54.26]1,825 days she suffered [01:56.67]From a man who says I do this because I love ya [02:00.06]Now she’s 14 and can’t take no more [02:02.01]And she knew he kept a gun in his dresser drawer [02:04.61]So she got it, she saw him, she cocked it [02:07.46]She said I hate you Uncle Chester, that’s why I got to stop it [02:10.56][Chorus] [02:10.85]Who protects our children [02:13.15]From the grownups touchy feeling? [02:15.79]Now what kind of world do we live in [02:18.43]When you abuse our children? [02:22.25]Mommy, mommy, please don’t leave [02:24.12]‘Cause Chester’s got something up his sleeve [02:26.77]And if you leave then I can’t sleep [02:29.30]‘Cause Chester’s gonna put his hands on me [02:32.32][Verse 2] [02:32.92]Now, who protects our children [02:34.47]From the grownups and their touchy feeling? [02:36.17]Do we let our kids kill or someone kill them? [02:38.41]Parents don’t be blind to a developing young mind [02:40.95]Guiding starts at home and I’m going teach mine [02:43.40]Hey young world, I know it’s crazy out there [02:46.19]I know they’re bigger and stronger and they get you really scared [02:49.14]But you have to find someone that you can trust [02:51.55]So they can help you put an end to this madness [02:54.53]You are not alone no matter what people have told ya [02:57.48]Many have been abused from the unknown to Oprah [03:00.37]Now what I’m saying is let’s make a change today [03:02.52]So you won’t be the next to hear your child say [03:05.56][Chorus] [Repeats] [03:44.62]God bless our children