Past Issues

 Your eyes are watching me,
 seeing what lives on the street.
 Just hangin' with the boys,
 protecting what's under my feet.
 Don't get in my face,
 don't give me something to prove.
 I'm just holding up this fence,
 making my own little groove.

 I'm too much trouble,
 that's how you see me.
 I'm in your way, a nuisance,
 a reject of your society. 

 Don't seem to fit in anywhere,
 growing up fast and alone.
 Nobody really cares what I do,
 learning about life on my own.
 Power comes from anger,
 you learn early on the street.
 We're getting younger all the time,
 can't trust anyone you meet.

 I'm too much trouble,
 that's what you tell me.
 I'm in the way, a nuisance,
 a reject of my own family. 

 Looking out for number one,
 never learned the golden rule.
 Nothing's right or wrong,
 no more prayer in school.
 Don't preach your values,
 got no time to listen.
 Got to grab all I can,
 it's there for the takin'.

 I'm too much trouble,
 that's how you treat me.
 I'm in the way, a nuisance,
 what am I supposed to be?          

 I'm part of the new generation,
 the numbers are growing bigger.
 Making up my own rules,
 strength is in a trigger.
 Trying to fill all the voids
 with anything that comes along.
 Who's to say what's right,
 who's to say what's wrong.

 I'm too much trouble,
 living a life that is empty.
 I'm in the way, a nuisance,
 why did you even have me?



  by John and Jennifer Nordberg





  Jeremiah 50:6
  My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused
  them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot 
  their own resting place.

  Ezekiel 34:16a
  I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and 
  strengthen the weak.

  Matthew 18:10-14 (Parable of the Lost Sheep)
  See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their
  angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. 
  What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away,
  will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered
  off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than
  about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven
  is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.

  Luke 19:10
  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.

                                         

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