[00:00.944](How can we know Love when we were never shown it?)
[00:12.446]Little Richie was the runt of the litter,
[00:14.694]given a thick hide by father and brothers
[00:17.445]Identified more with his sisters and mother,
[00:20.206]always felt a bit different from the others
[00:22.696]A loving marriage from the outside,
[00:24.944]but oh, how ferociously he'd hit her
[00:28.206]Richie stood by the bleach white bedside
[00:30.944]Ma held his face in her hands while he cried:
[00:33.456]"Hush, now, precious lamb, everything will be alright
[00:38.444]I know how it looks but I swear he's a good man
[00:41.696]Oh baby, G-d has a much bigger plan
[00:45.195]I have my family, I have my health,
[00:50.696]and I'm quite content with that."
[00:54.695]"How can you say this time that it'll be alright?
[01:00.192]How can you still look in his eyes and see the love of your life?"
[01:05.444](He works all things for good! In the end, it is Love that wins!)
[01:37.194]Love was his inclination
[01:39.694]Belief, his dearest passion
[01:42.452]A beautiful escape from resentment,
[01:45.192]fear of the next crushing blow
[01:48.142](How can we know Love when were never shown it?)
[01:58.643]He'd wait on his lonesome for that blue hair in her station wagon
[02:03.401]Attending those Baptist services alone,
[02:06.402]in the house of the Lord, he found purpose and a home
[02:10.151]Richie stood on a chair, peeked over the pulpit,
[02:13.143]reminded himself and the beloved, not lacking in youthful wit:
[02:18.143]"This is what's promised:
[02:20.393]He works all things for good! In the end, it's Love that wins!"
[02:31.651]How are we to know how to Love when every attempt is met with the back of a hand?
[02:36.894]It would only be Love to mend the damned,
[02:41.393]who never grew to know compassion
[02:46.644]Just another unfortunate, beaten senseless by his old man
[02:52.153]"How can you say this time that it will be alright?
[02:57.656]How can you still look in his eyes and see the love of your life?"
[03:02.652](He works all things for good! In the end, it's Love that wins!)
[03:13.653]An heirloom passed down before its day,
[03:24.144]legacy came violently to rip innocence away