K-Rino - Shattered Innocence lyrics

May every child who goes astray
Eventually find their way, one day let's go

A happy man and wife, life worth while
Married two years then they
Had their first child
He was so excited though it was not a boy
His little princess soon became
His pride and joy
Believed in family, that was his universe
She was brought up knowing God
Raised in the church
She was sheltered by her father's safe ways
Elementary school to middle
School straight A's
Couldn't tell it all this is just a summary
Everybody talked about how great
She's gonna be
And she was on that path but no too far along
Now she at school seeing things
She never saw at home
Class mates wild, starting trouble up
The other girls wearing skirts
She was covered up
Curious thoughts in mind she
Tryna walk the line
But now she wondering what she
Been missing all this time

Once it's gone all you can do is reminisce
Broken pieces of a young
Life shattered innocence
Before and after, then and now no resemblance
Hope and pray you never have
To echo these sentiments

A change was happening slowly
But who could tell
Tired of following the rules
Started to rebel
She not the same girl her grades dropping off
Talking back, attitudes, mouth popping off
Her mama getting scared
What should we do then?
She at the school running with
A clique of new friends
She they checked the room and
Saw a bigger threat
Found some weed and a half
A pack of cigarettes
Tried to talk to her, she wasn't listening
So daddy implemented some physical discipline
Back to the old school
He put that belt on her
No abuse but he left a couple of welts on her
She told her home chick
"I need to move quick
I done grew sick of this
My daddy too strict" tripping from A to Z
That ain't the way to be
Her friend said, "I got the remedy
Come stay with me"

Been out the house a month
Her new life was deep
She went from school everyday to
Maybe twice a week
No more curfew now she can go wherever
He friend's mama real cool
They all smoke together
Happy that she was free
No longer in solitude
Wild and rude, having sex with a college dude
That life didn't play around man
It took her early
Seventeen but them drugs got
Her looking thirty
But she so naive she don't regret her deeds
Her parents feeling like they
Never should've let leave
Now five months later the
Wounds are opened more
Happened to run into her father
In the grocery store
Right at that moment then he
Saw his world end she said, "Daddy
I'd like you to meet my girlfriend"
He wondered long as he painfully drove home
"How could I do everything right
And it still goes wrong"