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Kept Down Lyrics
If I could talk to all the children in the clouds
the ones who couldn't help but take it lying down
I'd say despite your fate you made your papa proud
there's just some things a guy like that can't say out loud
Oh your mama well she just didn't know how
a thousand years of being told to shut her mouth
and kept down
down
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kept down
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If I could steal away the outcast of the class
I'd break em out of there and take em to the tracks
we'd bet all of it on the horse with a broke back
we'd watch it win while all the stalions came in last
oh boy you see youre odds aint all that bad
slim to none but not so slim you've got to slip between the cracks
so come back
come back
pretty girl
wicked one
cut your curls
cut out your tongue
One by one we let em burn off with the sun
can only hope there somewhere finally having some fun being young
the ones who couldn't help but take it lying down
I'd say despite your fate you made your papa proud
there's just some things a guy like that can't say out loud
a thousand years of being told to shut her mouth
down
down
down
kept down
down
down
down
I'd break em out of there and take em to the tracks
we'd bet all of it on the horse with a broke back
we'd watch it win while all the stalions came in last
slim to none but not so slim you've got to slip between the cracks
come back
wicked one
cut your curls
cut out your tongue
can only hope there somewhere finally having some fun being young
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Ryan has also discussed the meaning of this song. It was dedicated to Amanda Todd. I'm sure everyone has seen that video she made, or at least heard about her tragic battle with depression, bullying, and suicidal tendencies, all those issues eventually ending her life. They wish to relay the message to people like Amanda that they cared about her, and they wish they could tell them how much they were actually loved. The outcasts deserve love, and sometimes it takes years for all the drama to end. Unfortunately, it takes the lives of too many teens and children, people who were way to young to die. Wherever Amanda is today, they wish that she's "somewhere finally having fun" because she deserves the happy life she never had.