There is a child and she sleeps in the gutter Don't close your eyes and she's easy to see She is not your child, she's always another's And those you abandon, they are left to me And though I will inhale her like a knife Leave her twisting, day after day after day Of a very short life with me Listen now closely and hear how I planned it Please let me tell you just how it will be She'll feel the pain but she won't understand it She'll think it's her fate, but we'll know it's me And though I will inhale her like a knife Leave her twisting, day after day after day Of a very short life with me So let me know, have I been clear? That I will magnify each cut and every bruise Every single child with tear, I'll pick her scabs, cripple her hand Push a finger in each wound I make, now tell me then, do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand? And though I will inhale her like a knife Leave her twisting, day after day after day Of a very short life with me With me With me