I’m gonna be, really honest here
It’s gonna be, a little awkward
But it needs to be said, and I swear I’m not attacking you
With my words
I promise you, I’m not crazy
Not delusional or sick no more unstable than you are
That’s what I tell myself anyways
You see I am afraid
 
To accept a ride from a friend of a friend
To walk outside at night in the city
To meet eyes with someone who stares at me the bus
Cuz when I go get off they just might follow me
To accept a compliment from a stranger
To wear something feminine that shows me off a little bit
Cuz I gotta be ready to fight for myself and my girlfriends
But I want to put these fears to an end
 
You might say that it’s better now
That it’s socially unacceptable
But most girls I know, have been at least harassed, been taught to feel
They don’t own their bodies
This might feel, a little dark to hear
Maybe I just live inside a darker corner than the rest
That’s what I tell myself anyways
To ignore that I’m afraid

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I want to close my eyes and wake up fearless
Because I don’t believe society can change
We’re all told to do what we can with what we have
These days
But it makes me kind of angry that I think like this
I swear I’m not crazy I kinda have to think this way
Can you help us change the world
So that all girls
Don’t have to be afraid

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Can you help us change the world, so that all girls, don’t have to be afraid
Of being harassed, abused, or killed, or raped

In the wake of another mass shooting, increasing violence, and several devastating natural disasters I wrote this. Usually I'm a bleeding heart type of person because there's not always something to say when tragedy strikes. But there are things that can be done, that should be done to help these thousands, even millions of hurting people and I would encourage us all to search our hearts, be in prayer, and ask God what it is we should do about these tragedies.

When Good Men Do Nothing
I’m getting tired of grief
I’m getting tired of death
I’m getting tired of disaster after disaster
Can we do something about them instead?
There comes a time when tears are rendered worthless
Where crying’s just a face for lethargy
You cannot say you care
If you will not dare
To do something
 
We have unchecked terror in our large cities
We have natural disasters everywhere we turn
We’ve got bitter, selfish people, each of them saying
It’s gonna be alright
So we just go along and hide behind our grief
 
None of us are innocent in injustice
We either play along or choose to fight against it
And I’ve been watching everything play along the sidelines
Saying I will be in prayer instead
But faith without works is dead
My righteous anger without action is false
And I’ve just been sitting here
With my eyes full, my hand behind my ear
So I can hear it and grieve it all
Still
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Sometimes pain is so great we cannot answer it
And sometimes there’s nothing we can do
But these days are the days when we should act
The days when we should face the truth
We all are accomplices if we don’t stand, if we don’t fight
For evil persists when good men do nothing
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