Let Me Marry My Mother

I Heard Them

I heard them laugh at us
I heard them say we never deserved love
I heard them, I heard them jeer
They laughed at how I never heard them scorn
Did we deserve that kind of hate?

I heard them plot to kill our dreams
I heard them say it in low tones
I heard them, I heard them cook lies about us
They lied of how evil and undeserving we were
Did we really deserve such hostility?

I heard them laugh at how poor we were
I heard them say we had no right
I heard them, I heard them lie
They said the poor were the devil's relatives
Didn't we deserve any happiness?

I heard them, I heard them brag
I heard them brag of how cool they were
I heard them declare each one of us naive and stupid
They said they were the coolest clique
As if we who upheld morals were dumb