The Effort - There's Still Hope For You lyrics

He was filled with years of abuse While she was just trying to cut loose And I can still hear them f**ing On the dirt cellar floor of old shed That's off limits With the locked rotting doors And did you tear up when ma and pa said They would tear it apart? Do you still hear her moans Now that you've only locked out the doors Because I meant what I wrote back in 9th grade You were both too immature For the decisions that you had made I know that truth may have struck a hard note But it hurt me more to know I had to lie So you would stop Asking me with tears in your eyes "Son, is this how you've always felt?" And pleading "I've only done the best I could With cards that I've been dealt All this world has done is eaten me up And spit me back out I'm a product of my surroundings, and someday son You'll understand what this is about." I'm left swaying with anxiety And wishing that you really meant it But deep down inside of me I knew that you treated us like sh** Because you were full of sh** Yourself That's when I thought About the all obsoletes in this world And I asked myself, And I asked myself "Why were we born this way?" And I asked myself, And I asked myself "Will we really die this way?" And I asked myself, And I asked myself "When will this hostile world start seeing things in gray?" After all the songs I have written for myself And all the lines I tried to give my generation for help I still feel like there's this hole inside my heart That only a parent's love Could have filled from the start Dad, I never thought I would write something to encourage you And I never thought I'd say That there is still hope for you But now I'm pleading There's still hope for you