So Afraid

All the kids run around playing free and fun
 While the dogs lap around the can
 Falling down, climbing trees, swimming in the river
 No life jacket on their backs
 Daughters sharpen their knives and they hunt for food
 Others watch their children grow
 Mothers going to work and they shake the hands
 Of a corporate tycoon's ghost
 And I'm afraid, ah
 I'm so afraid, ah
 "What if I lose?" Is what I think to myself
 I'm fine in my shell, I'm afraid of it all, afraid of loving you
 I'm a gift and a curse to the wilderness
 When the leaves only turn to brown (ah)
 The birds fly high and they wink at all
 Of the grandmothers on the ground (ah)
 Rain pours down in the village dens (ah)
 My cousins fetch for lunch (ah)
 While I sit in my room writing letters to my church
 And things and such (ah)
 'Cause I'm afraid, ah
 I'm so afraid, ah
 "What if I lose?"
 Is what I think to myself
 I'm fine in my shell
 I'm afraid of it all, afraid of loving you
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 Cousins all in the creek
 Friday night, write a 'zine
 And the rain pours down, the ghetto dancing
 Yeah, ah
 I'm so afraid, ah
 I'm so afraid, ah
 "What if I lose?"
 Is what I think to myself
 I'm fine in my shell
 I'm afraid of it all, afraid of loving you
 I, I-I-I
 I'm
 I'm afraid, afraid of loving you
 Cousins (whoo) all in the creek
 Friday night, write a 'zine
 And the rain pours down, the ghetto dancing
 Yeah