Child of Divorce - free MP3 streaming audio, rock and roll about divorce

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Child of Divorce

I'm a child of divorce, another victim of the courts
Security was an illusion that got shattered by force
Only the children know (where did the little child go?)
Only the children know (where did that little child go?)
When the court takes over (he's growing up too fast)
You can never go home (he wants to go back to the past)
I'm a child of divorce

I can't talk with my dad, my dad's already way too sad
I can't deal with my feelings, and they're the worst I've ever had
I'm a child of divorce (where did the little child go?)
Another victim of the courts (where did that little child go?)
Security was an illusion (only the children know)
That got shattered by force (only the children know)
Only the children know . . .

I get so worried about my mom, she's trying hard to stay calm
But she's so angry inside, it's like a part of her died
Now I can't sleep at night, I know my mom and my dad still fight
On and on (where did the little child go?)
Only the children know (where did that little child go?)
When the court takes over (he's growing up too fast)
You can never go home (he wants to go back to the past)
I don't believe in divorce (only the children know)
I don't believe in divorce (only the children know)
Why take vows and get married? (only the children know)
And end it all in divorce? (only the children know)
Only the children know
Only the children know
Only the children know, no no no . . . No! No no no . . .
Oh Mom, oh Dad, please, please, please don't fight
Please, please, oh, oh, oh oh . . .

Peter Cross is the songwriter, the lead singer and he also sings all the harmony tracks, plus he's the arranger and the producer.

I wrote Child of Divorce during the summer of 1994 while experiencing the prolonged atomic blast of separation from my children, the agony of which caused me to start writing songs again. Along with Breaking Love and The Ghost of Our Love, strong themes of real pain are expressed. No faking here at all, this is songwriting from true experience. I wanted to write about the trauma of divorce from a different point of view - that of the children who suffer the most unfairly of all. I was undergoing the completely humiliating experience of "supervised visitations" and "court approved evaluation" so I had a driving need to involve my sons in my music because it was the only thing I could offer them which was uniquely mine. So I asked Jason and Alex to help me write Child of Divorce. I had the title, the general concept and the music in my head, but I wanted my sons to write the lyrics. As it turned out, I wrote the lyrics while Jason and Alex censored them by saying yes or no to each line if it was or was not a thing a child would say or think. It worked. The pain is there. The perspective of the children is there. This may be one of the definitive songs about divorce.