She had 13 kids, each one had 13 problems
Three uppers, ten downers, just to put up with this
And she don’t know which children
belong to which father
But she loves them all anyway
and they each get a kiss
And the toilet ain’t flushing
and the toaster is smoking
The vacuum don’t suck but it needs a new belt
But she saw the world through the eyes of a child
And remembers how good it was
and how good it felt
He picked up the paper
from the bitter cold morning
He had just gone to sleep,
he had to get up for work
By morning he’s a watchman
and by night he’s a waiter
In the late afternoon he works as a clerk
And he can’t pay the doctor bills,
he just can’t afford the pills
The car’s repossesed and the child support’s due
But he saw the world through the eyes of a child
Big problems seem smaller
and old things seem new
...
She was just six when she turned her first trick
Now she’s thirteen and it don’t make her sick
And she does lots of crystal
and she owns her own pistol
Got a goldfish named Silver
and a pimp who’s named Rick
And some are like customers
and some are like patients
She’d have gone back to school
if she’d just had the patience
But she saw the world through the eyes of a child
None of the nightmares, and nothing to deny
She saw the world through the eyes of a child
Yes she’s seen it all
and she knows they’re all lies