Things We Learn To Know

Listen please listen You don't know what you're missing When you lay your intentions low You've been mistreated and beated and beated And these things you've learned to know I know Mrs. Imagene We met when I was 3 But that was sometime ago She was a queen and he would beat her real mean But those things we didn't know Listen Mr. listen You don't know what you're missing When you lay your conviction down You've been mistreating by beating and beating These things in her that she's learned to know The kids were real young when they saw his long thumb How were they supposed to know That she was his slave When he would misbehave For how long the sheriff still don't know He went missing The day he was sentenced to life without parole Imagene still remembers The times he would beat her And those things we learn to know