Oh, if you could only see me as a child, though the pain and sorrow haunt me
If you could see me as I was, my longing for understanding, for purpose in my life
For a way of knowing who I am, where am I going?
Who will show me, hold my hand, lead me?
Oh, if you would just see me, I am still a child even though I am a man inside
I am still a child I wander the streets looking for somewhere to lay my head
Someone to care, someone to love me as I am
Oh, if you saw me as a child, would you not pick me up, would you not comfort me?
Oh, how did it all go wrong, how many times shall I sing the same song?
I hold out my hand but you just walk on by
I want you to see the pain in me
I want you to see my need
Don’t walk on by look at my face, look at my pain, look at my weight, of my shame
The shame of stealing to hide my pain, a drug-filled life on the streets of shame
How many times can I walk this path, the path to nowhere, a path to emptiness and sorrow?
I don’t know if I will see tomorrow when I wake up
It’s just the same I reach for my drugs to numb the pain
I cried for help but it never came I live my life on another plain
I closed my eyes for another night; I’m cold and hungry and have no fight
And when I woke I saw this bloke, on the floor in a duffle coat
People came to look at him, poor sod they said, what a sin
That he should die so young
They came to take his body away just as if it were ‘any ole day’
And when they turned his face my way, his face was mine, gone forever
Just another day, just another body, it seems so sad that I have gone
But why didn’t they see me when it was all so wrong?
Why did they walk on by and just look up at the sky?
They could have saved me, they could have said ‘come on son I give you a bed, somewhere warm to lay your head’
But now I’m gone from the streets of pain and who is it I should blame?
Your life, like mine, was full of pain, I took the blame, I took the pain
I turned and looked and saw his face, the face of God, the face of Grace
His hand took mine and led me home, my eyes were opened and I could see the amazing love he has for me