Pity The Child Lyrics - Singles - Chess

When I was nine I learned survival 

Taught myself not to care 

I was my single good companion 

Taking my comfort there 

Up in my room I planned 

My conquests on my own 

Never asked for a helping hand 

No one would understand 

I never asked the pair who fought below 

Just in case they said no 

Pity the child who has ambition 

Knows what he wants to do 

Knows that he'll never fit the system 

Others expect him to 

Pity the child who knew his parents 

Saw their faults 

Saw their love die before his eyes 

Pity the child that wise 

He never asked did I cause your distress? 

Just in case they said yes 

When I was twelve my father moved out 

Left with a whimper not with a shout 

I didn't miss him, he made it perfectly clear 

I was a fool and probably queer 

Fool that I was I thought this would bring 

Those he had left closer together 

She made her move the moment he crawled away 

I was the last the woman told 

She never let her bed get cold 

Someone moved in, I shut my door 

Someone to treat her 

Just the same way as before 

I took the road of least resistance 

I had my game to play 

I had the skill and more the hunger 

Easy to get away 

Pity the child with no such weapons 

No defense 

No escape from the ties that bind 

Always a step behind 

I never called to tell her all I'd done 

I was only her son 

Pity the child but not forever 

Not if he stays that way 

He can get all he ever wanted 

If he's prepared to pay 

Pity instead the careless mother 

What she missed 

What she lost when she let me go 

And I wonder, does she know 

I wouldn't call, a crazy thing to do 

Just in case she said, who?