Won't You Stay Lyrics

Braiding her hair

A mother values a moment

With her a daughter

As if it was her last

Playing with her toys

A childhood purity

And she won't understand

That she's a refugee

The door kept falling

With unforgiving

Bullets all blazing

Her father pulls her away to the bedroom

Crawling back out

And holding her parents

Bloodied bodies

With painful screams she cries to her gods

Won't you stay

I want to know why you saved me

Where did they go

Let me follow them to their sorrow

Why didn't you stay

Why would you do this to me?

Where do I go from here?

She's drunk all of her water

Bare-feet she walks to the border

There she begs for warmth

And shelter

She's lost in translation

Since when was she foreign?

Explains that she's an orphan

And she's taken away

There's a million children

Walking through their broken childhood

Seeing playgrounds they loved

Turn to rust

20 years old

She walks through her memories

Begging to her gods

Asking for the truth

Did you stay

I want to know if you saved them

How many fell in my sorrow

Why didn't you stay

Why must you do this to us

Where will you go from here