Daddy comes home, he has a smell.

Daddy beats momma across the face.

She cries out, beggin’ him.

I watch with my own two eyes.

Momma is all bruised.

She says it’s just a silly game.

I know better, though.

Momma is on the kitchen floor.

Daddy is bloody, he tells me to go on.

Daddy is yellin’, he’s throwin’ bottles.

I watch him with my own two eyes.

Sister is on her bed.

She’s hurt real bad.

I know where she’s hurt.

Daddy did it.

I know he did.

Because I saw it.

With my own two eyes.

A officer takes me from my house.

A woman packs me my bags.

I go to school, I beat a boy.

I’m on the front lines.

My friend is gone away.

He’s been shot, I know where.

I see it with my own two eyes.

A man with a knife.

A gag in my mouth.

My right eye in his hand.

I know because I see it.

With my own last eye.

My hands, around his throat.

His eyes bulge under the blood.

I’m a mean man- a bad man.

My wife, she’s on the bed.

She’s cryin’ at what I’m about to do.

She’s hurt and I know where.

I see it with my own eye.

The jail has white walls.

The iron bars bitin’ my hands.

I kill a man with a sharpened shard.

A woman says it’s because of history.

I told her it’s the way I am.

She showed me I was wrong.

I saw it with my own eye.

I have a daughter now.

She looks like the woman.

And I saw my baby…

I’m nothin’ like my daddy.

I’ve changed my ways.

I see it with my own eye.