Classified - Powerless lyrics

It's hard to be strong
When you feelin' powerless (powerless)

"I'm sorry that she is affected i did
Not ever intend to hurt anyone"
"How in the name of God
Could you think that she wouldn't be
Affected?! How?! You do not have
No idea how devastated we are feeling
Because of what you did"

She wonders why nobody hears her cry
The footsteps in the hallway
Have her terrified
Scared as she looks into his staring eyes
He crawls into her bed and
She just lays there
Almost paralyzed Feelin' powerless
She feels so powerless
She closed her eyes and
Hides under the covers
As her father tried to touch her
He took advantage of her
Took all her innocence from her
She tried to explain to mother
But she said she don't believe it
Nobody wanna talk about it
'Cause this don't happen to good people
This don't happen to good people
At the age of 17
She finally went to the police
Charged him for the crimes he did
And finally took him off the streets
Then at the trial
She had to relive it all again
Understand, explaining how this man
Took her life within abused for 9 years
He got 4 months in the bin
She got a life-long sentence
He got slap on the wrist
It happens all too much
But too many keep it 'hush hush'
How these kids suppose to trust us?
Man, don't let em feel powerless

I'm not sad I'm strong
I won't feel powerless
I won't feel powerless
I won't feel powerless

Thank you to my hero
I hope to meet you some day
Can anybody out there hear me? I
Hope somebody can hear me
Cause, I don't wanna be here no more
Thank you to my hero
I hope to meet you some day
Can anybody out there hear me? I
Hope somebody can hear me
Cause, I don't wanna be here no more

One day, one day one day, one day

Shout out where my birthplace is
And to the First Nations
And to the people making the best
Out of the worst cases
Too many unanswered questions and
Open murder cases without a voice how are we
Suppose to encourage changes?
My grandmother was part-white and part Native
In fact
My highschool was part-white and part Native
Personally connected
I've met people who've been affected
They've been asking for some help
But they been continually neglected
How many more of these
Indigenous women have to
Go missing Before somebody will listen? Huh?
We need to change the conditions
Maybe it's blatant racism
Maybe there's hate in the system
But we gotta fix it
Cause the people feel powerless
And the mothers feel powerless
And the fathers feel powerless
Like, "Don't anybody care about my daughter?"
"Don't anybody care if she's alive
Or she been slaughtered?"
They deserve to know
So they can go and bury her with honour
Big up to those fightin' on
And everybody fightin' strong
I wish that I could do more
Than just write a song

I feel so powerless i feel so powerless
I'm not sad I'm strong
It's hard to be strong
But don't feel powerless
Don't feel powerless don't feel powerless
No, speak up and keep on

Thank you to my hero
I hope to meet you some day
Can anybody out there hear me?
I hope somebody can hear me
Cause, I don't wanna be here
No more, one day, one day
One day (One day, one day)
Cause, I don't wanna be here no more
For some people all they have is hope
(one day, one day) hopefully one day
(cause I don't want to be here no more)
There's a lot of things that
We don't like talking about
(No more, no more)
And we know we should be talking about it
(Cause, I don't wanna be here no more)
This happens a lot more than
What we think it does (No more, no more)
Don't let it make you feel powerless

One day, one day one day, one day