Will You Be There?

An Irish child stares into my eyes With a backdrop of dinner, wine, politics She asks me where her mothers been And what I did when I heard her cries I drove her through your college town She saw the single room where you drown But in your brain feast on your body For that crown that stripped you from your voice And down She turned to me and sang, "If you knew, Why didn't you say?" I wanna hear that voice you left for dead I wanna tell your daughter that you were fed When you whisper kid,"Will you be there?" I wanna scream out, "Yes, I swear!" -Instrumental- And mines back home and Jeanya slowly Stripes all the meat from her bones Hiked inside of her glowing clothes And she froze while she slept alone I turned to you and thought that I did not say I wanna hear that voice you left for dead I wanna tell your daughter that you were fed When you whisper kid,"Will you be there?" I wanna scream out, "Yes, I swear!" -Instrumental- She froze underneath the summer sun She said it's colder when you've got no one She froze underneath the summer sun And her Irish child stared into my eyes And said, "Lay down your gun and sing" I wanna hear that voice you left for dead I wanna tell your daughter that you were fed When you whisper kid,"Will you be there?" I wanna scream out, "Yes, I swear!"