MIA (Purple Hearts 2) Lyrics

Remember Denise? (Yeah, Mike)

I realized she deleted me on Facebook last week

(So what? Y'all haven't been speaking for years)

Yeah, I get it but that moment had my brain shifting gears

I've kept something to myself and that made it resurface

(What's that?) Give me a minute this news is making me nervous

I thought that would give me liquid courage

8 years ago, I told you she was my first

Even though I knew that it wasn't likely that we'd work

And it didn't. (Yeah, I know that) Shh! I'm finding my words

Screw it, man, we almost gave birth

(Wait, what?) almost... it's true

We were both out of town when I heard the news

(Did you abort?) Sorry for the misdirection

She had a miscarriage after its conception

The battlefield of love may end up with some casualties

Our purple hearts remind us of the pain our past has seen

Though we'd like move on

We must mourn the troops gone

And missing in action

Missing in action

Back then, when I learned we conceived

And later lost I was relieved, but that was just me

And although I planned to be daddy

I wonder her side of the scene

"I finally found my family

And a man who undoubtedly loves me

But will he still stick around if there's a kid that's bound

To be born needing some Huggies

I know we'll be struggling

Whether he stays or he doesn't

Wait, why am I bloody?

Pain in my stomach

Is unbearable; its incomparable

Passing what's in my womb

What did I do to deserve to deal with this alone

Cause he can't console me over this loss over the phone"

(Am I wrong?)

The battlefield of love may end up with some casualties

Our purple hearts remind us of the pain our past has seen

Though we'd like move on

We must mourn the troops gone

And missing in action

Missing in action

Now I know that if we had the child

We probably wouldn't be living the greatest lifestyle

But we would be parents of an elementary schooler

Worrying about if we have its pencils, books, and rulers

Hopefully, we'd agree to teach about God and manners

So the kid wouldn't be like us, becoming awful planners

Think first, act second; since ours were reckless

Having sex without protection and before we had a wedding

We could penniless from the choices that we've made

Stretching each check we get just to eat from day to day

We didn't finish college, but we hope our son's a scholar

Or that we don't separate making our daughter's life harder

Maybe we never stayed together

Basically making not having kids better

But it makes me want to cry that it never saw the light

We didn't get to try to get through the storm we could weather

The battlefield of love may end up with some casualties

Our purple hearts remind us of the pain our past has seen

Though we'd like move on

We must mourn the troops gone

And missing in action

Missing in action

I want to say

If you felt this pain

You are not alone

Whether you want kids

Or the opposite

We know we still mourn

We have purple hearts

Cause we've loved and lost

And some are M.I.A

Emotions will run wild

Over a unborn child

No need to feel ashamed

They say

The battlefield of love may end up with some casualties

Our purple hearts remind us of the pain our past has seen

Though we'd like move on

We must mourn the troops gone

And missing in action

Missing in action