Milk Teeth in a Box of Nails

Shaving cuts before I hit thirteen
Counting pennies for milk, causing a scene
Cartoons drowned out by the shouting next door
Grew up fast sleeping on the floor.
Milk teeth in a box of nails
Trading lullabies for cautionary tales
Every wish I made went stale

Building a life on a broken rail.
Hard lessons in a kitchen full of smoke
Learning how to laugh at a violent joke
Faking signatures on the report card in the light
Trading soft skin for a way to survive the night.

Milk teeth in a box of nails
Trading lullabies for cautionary tales
Every wish I made went stale
Building a life on a broken rail.
Keep my back to the wall, eyes on the street
Childhood dropped at my own two feet.

Milk teeth in a box of nails
Trading lullabies for cautionary tales
Every wish I made went stale
Building a life on a broken rail.