Ten years old and you're already
Filled to your little bones with hate
It's enraging
But you ain't learned
To spell that yet
Nah nah
Ma says you gotta open up
Dad says you gotta stay shut
Mixed messages
All flipping in your gut
And you don't even know
What the feeling is
But its eating you alive
And those five little digits
Tappin' on your thighs
You tryn'a, turn it into
Terms of times tables
But you ain't able to
And even from outside
You can hear the screaming
And I
Been living
In the middle of a breakdown
Barely gonna make it outta this one
Scratchin' on your skin like you
Tryn'a let the sunlight in
And its alright
Cuz we're all made of tissue paper
And we're ready to ignite
Times are hard
But no one's alone forever
Times are hard but no one's alone
No ones out to listen to a kid
She ain't a person she's a sprout
Just a start
Just another thing to argue about
Ain't got the dough
To buy her any new clothes
So she's stuck
Growing out of
Hand me downs
That were thrift store boosted
Who's gonna tell her
That it gets much better
When her aunties
And her uncles never visit
Very often
And when they
Do she better watch out
Auntie likes to shout
Uncle ain't no boy scout
The only love
That she ever thought she saw
Turned into a time bomb
Bike got jacked
So she's trapped
In the two-bed flat
No need to wipe
Your feet on the mat
Cuz just like that
She barely packed
And left no tracks
No no no she
Couldn't well stay in this
Gutter-water
Drain-off-lake any longer
Hopeless it seems
But dream but dream
Girl's gotta make a future
See the ghettos are getting fuller
And the money ain't a kind ruler
Take us back to grade school
Try to fit it in the simplest tools
Turn our troubles into times tables
Stack them high to multiply
We see the signs and play the fool
When crossing through
I guess I never knew
How to keep the rules
Times are hard
But no one's alone forever
Times are hard
But no one's alone
It's a long haul
Climbing outta that hole
Making what you can out
Of a glass jar
Part full bad thoughts
And part full of self harm
And you're told
You gotta twist and screw
That stripped lid back on
But you lost
That part in the sandbox
So you sit on that swinging gate
Everybody keeps pushin'
Shoving out the way
Each day you say you'll run away
But that gate falls back in place
Times are hard
But no one's alone forever
Times are hard
But no one's alone
Alone alone alone
Ten years old and you're already
Filled to your little bones with hate
It's enraging
But you ain't learned
To spell that yet
Nah nah
Ma says you gotta open up
Dad says you gotta stay shut
Mixed messages
All flipping in your gut
And you don't even know
What the feeling is
But its eating you alive
And those five little digits
Tappin' on your thighs
You tryn'a, turn it into
Terms of times tables
But you ain't able to
And even from outside
You can hear the screaming
And I
Been living
In the middle of a breakdown
Barely gonna make it outta this one
Scratchin' on your skin like you
Tryn'a let the sunlight in
And its alright
Cuz we're all made of tissue paper
And we're ready to ignite
Times are hard
But no one's alone forever
Times are hard but no one's alone
No ones out to listen to a kid
She ain't a person she's a sprout
Just a start
Just another thing to argue about
Ain't got the dough
To buy her any new clothes
So she's stuck
Growing out of
Hand me downs
That were thrift store boosted
Who's gonna tell her
That it gets much better
When her aunties
And her uncles never visit
Very often
And when they
Do she better watch out
Auntie likes to shout
Uncle ain't no boy scout
The only love
That she ever thought she saw
Turned into a time bomb
Bike got jacked
So she's trapped
In the two-bed flat
No need to wipe
Your feet on the mat
Cuz just like that
She barely packed
And left no tracks
No no no she
Couldn't well stay in this
Gutter-water
Drain-off-lake any longer
Hopeless it seems
But dream but dream
Girl's gotta make a future
See the ghettos are getting fuller
And the money ain't a kind ruler
Take us back to grade school
Try to fit it in the simplest tools
Turn our troubles into times tables
Stack them high to multiply
We see the signs and play the fool
When crossing through
I guess I never knew
How to keep the rules
Times are hard
But no one's alone forever
Times are hard
But no one's alone
It's a long haul
Climbing outta that hole
Making what you can out
Of a glass jar
Part full bad thoughts
And part full of self harm
And you're told
You gotta twist and screw
That stripped lid back on
But you lost
That part in the sandbox
So you sit on that swinging gate
Everybody keeps pushin'
Shoving out the way
Each day you say you'll run away
But that gate falls back in place
Times are hard
But no one's alone forever
Times are hard
But no one's alone
Alone alone alone