Intro:           2x Verse1:    Once upon a time there was a girl.    In her early years she had to learn    How to grow up living in a war that she called home    Never knew just where to turn for shelter from the storm    It hurt me to see the pain   across my mother’s face    Everytime my father’s fist would    Put her in her place    Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room    Hoping it would be over soon...    Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same    And I still remember how you kept me so afraid    Strength is my mother for all the love she gave And ev’ry morning that I wake I look back at yesterday And I’m ok...           Verse2:    I often wonder why I carry all this guilt    When it’s you that helped me put up all these walls I built    Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door    The echo of a broken child screaming "please no more"    Daddy don’t you understand the damage you have done?    For you it’s just a memory but for me it still lives on...   Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same   And I still remember how you kept me so afraid   Strength is my mother for all the love she gave And ev’ry morning that I wake I look back at yesterday... Bridge:   It’s not so easy to forget   All the marks you left along her neck   When I was thrown against cold stairs   And ev’ry day afraid to come home In fear of what I might see next...    Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same    And I still remember how you kept me so afraid    Strength is my mother for all the love she gave And ev’ry morning that I wake I look back at yesterday And I’m ok...                 Mm... I’m ok...