Function! Function!
If you can’t do function
Then you are out
‘Cos that is what life is all about
This game has rules
If you can’t comply
Dysfunction, not Function is what you get
The little girl screams,
It is dad again
Mum’s on the floor
He looks so mad
Bam! Bam!! With big kicks too
More slaps he gives
Dysfunction, Dysfunction,
The game’s gone bad
I am only little but they are mine
Dad and mum please think of me
Life can’t be played the way you do
I am in the middle and I am lost
Dysfunction, Dysfunction
The game’s gone bad
Mum staggers up
Cos he’s gone now
She can’t see me
But I’m right there
My tummy growls,
‘I am hungry mum’
I think I am invisible, do they really care?
She gets her bottle
She always does
She gulps it all down
As if to hide inside
Now she is drunk and I don’t exist
Dysfunction, Dysfunction
The game’s gone bad
It’s morning again and she can’t wake up
I look in the basket
Pick out my dirty clothes
No breakfast, no kiss
Cos she’s still passed out
Lying on the floor
Within her filth
I go to school all by myself
I stink , I know, and I have no friends
‘Not again’ the teacher said
‘I’ll call someone, they’ll help you child’
Dysfunction, Dysfunction
The game’s gone bad.
I don’t know why
I have to live,
With this woman when I have a mum
I love her so, my dearest mum
But home has become a disaster zone
I know dad is gone
But he’ll be back
He always does ‘cos mum lets him.
Dysfunction, Dysfunction,
The game’s gone bad.
I miss my mum
She’s not that bad
Please take me home
I promise I will be good
I’ll be invisible, I won’t get hurt
I love my mum and my dad too
These strangers, they are good to me
But it doesn’t feel like home, where I am now
Tears and sadness, cos I know
This is not how it’s meant to be
Dysfunction, Dysfunction,
The game’s gone bad.
I am still here.
Significance Speaks 