A Song by Peter Himmelman

[KenL]

Easy to be Broken
by
Peter Himmelman

I got a thousand questions for God and man
I got a head full of answers I can't understand
Why the lies grow fat and the children get crushed
The static gets applause and the truth gets hushed
We live our lives in stoned anticipation
Somewhere along the line
we've lost our ticket home
It's so easy to be broken, it's so hard to be alone

Everyone's cravin' what nobody needs
Just killin' time while our innocence bleeds
You and I are jumpin' madly tryin' to rise above
A world in decay and the wreckage of love
But you know we'd lay our morals down in fire
For the filthy little dream they toss us like a bone
It's so easy to be broken, it's so hard to be alone
It's so easy to be broken,
it's so easy to be broken down

There's a woman in the alley sleepin' by the trash
Dreamin' 'bout her daddy and fists full of cash
Now their cleanin' their pistols
at the end of my block
What should I tell my daughter
when she learns how to talk
Do I tell her that the world's been built
on broken promises
Do I tell her that she needs to
find a heart of stone
It's so easy to be broken, it's so hard to be alone

It's so easy to be broken, It's so easy to be broken
It's so easy to be broken down...
It's so hard to be alone
Easy to be broken, easy to be broken

From the CD titled "Skin"

[crypticpoet777]

I love this, and how true it is to be broken and broken down. We raised our daughters in a neighbourhood that
a soup kitchen was up the block, and homeless people lived
in their cars across the street on railroad property. Our girls
turned out so good, and so giving and open minded. I've always thought they learned so much about real life and real hardship by seeing it exists instead of a out of sight out of mind part of town.
thanks for posting this~

[KenL]

thanks cryptic, to me it speaks of so much I see in my life and the world in general