Whatcha Gonna Do?

This poem is actually lyrics to a song I wrote when I was 13 years old after a serious experience with bullying. You can read about the experience HERE.

Don't mean what you say

They'll beat you up anyway

Don't change your attitude

They'll think you're being rude

Every night you're cryin'

You feel you wanna be dyin'

Cryin' out your window

Watching all the snow... fall

CHORUS

You say the wrong things at the wrong time baby

Never time to fix it, so it gets so hazy

Drives you to the point where you're going crazy

Don't change your mind

Just leave it all behind

I see where you're coming from

But girl, it's all been done

Walking towards that door

Falling to the floor

Every time you're walkin'

Down the hall you're seein'

Kids laughing at you

Telling you you're through

CHORUS

Whatcha gonna do?

When you have to face them again?

Whatcha gonna say?

Whatcha gonna do?

GUITAR SOLO

You're walking out the door to leave

When something suddenly

Hits you right in the face

No one to embrace...you

Somebody just punched you

The kids who laugh say they hate you

They used to be your friends

Now that all depends

CHORUS

You said the wrong things at the wrong time baby

Never time to fix it, so it got so hazy

Drove you to the point where you went so crazy

Didn't change your mind

You left it all behind

Whatcha gonna do?

When you have to face them again?

Whatcha gonna say?

Whatcha gonna do?

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