Eighteen Years Old

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W.C. Blackmon

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Sometimes it’s hard, tryin’ to find the right direction.  You don’t know which way to go.  All you know is that you’re walking down a dark road, and can’t really see the end. 

CHORUS 1:
She’s only eighteen years old
She has no place to go.
So she’s walking down a dark road and slowly losing hope!

She’s only eighteen years old
Has no place to go.
So she’s walking down a dark road and slowly losing hope!”

Little girl little girl.
What will you do in this unbalanced world?
Will you go to school?
Will you sing a tune?
Will you become a street jewel and lie down with strangers in the back seats of cars and cheap motel rooms?
You say your mama doesn’t understand and your father was never there,
And the only thing you ever wanted out of life was something of your own,
Some place, somebody, somewhere that cared.
You have a disposition and smile of an angel
But with the passing of each day your heart grows cold,
And you’ve gone through so much in your short life that sometimes it’s even hard for you to believe
That your only eighteen years old.	
Now your mama’s telling you,
“Girl now that you’re grown, you’ve got to leave.”
Cause see, her man says there’s only room for one woman in that house,
And that woman is she!
You, just shake your head and hold back the tear ducts that start to well up,
And begin to pack up, your things.
And because of not wishing to hurt her, you refuse to tell her,
That her so called man tried to force himself on you three different times,
Just in the last week. And this is the real reason that he wants you to leave. “The real reason.”
So now your outside, and the world has never seemed so wide, nor so lonely, ahhh, if only….
You had some place, some body, somewhere, that cared.
Ahhh, if only,
You had some place, some body, somewhere, that cared.

CHORUS 2:
“She’s only eighteen years old
She has no place to go.
So she’s walking down a dark road and slowly losing hope!
She’s only eighteen years old
Has no place to go.
So she’s walking down a dark road, and slowly losing hope!”

Little girl, little girl,
What will you do in this unbalanced world?
What will you eat tonight?
Where will you sleep tonight?
But oh yeah, that’s right, old Dude cross the way says he’ll take care of you if you’ll let him and his boys beat tonight.
If you will get down on your knees tonight, and please him tonight.
And got you feeling real sleazy tonight!

Before do that, you’d rather not eat tonight, sleep outside on the cold and hard concrete tonight!
So little girl, little girl!
What will you do in this unbalanced world?
The life that you now live is getting you down.
The smile you use to wear has turned into a frown.
By the minute your heart’s getting colder, by the day you’re looking older,
And the weight that you’re carrying is way too much, for your shoulders. “Shoulders.”

Baby girl hold on and be strong, and don’t give up just yet,
Because believe me, you’ve got a whole lot of folks not just praying for you, but pulling for you,
And on that you can bet.
So I’m asking you to take the words of this here poem, and wrap ’em like a blanket around your heart,
And refuse to let this here unbalanced world rip your life apart.
And if you feel the need to cry, go ahead and shed a tear or two.
It’s alright!
Just keep in mind, the sun it does shine, after every dark night.
 And if you ever, ever feel lonely, like there’s no one there,
Just remember there is somebody, and it’s a poet name Bobby, and he truly does care.
Even if I don’t personally know you or even know your name,
You’re on my heart every morning, noon, and night when I bow my head and pray.
You’re on my heart every morning, noon, and night every time I bow my head and pray.

CHORUS 3:
“She’s only eighteen years old.
She has no place to go,
And though she’s walking down a dark road, she’s found a light of hope.

She’s only eighteen years old.
She has no place to go,
And though she’s walking down a dark road, she’s found a light of hope.
She’s found a light of hope!!!”

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