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Kendall Payne: Music

08. Touch

(Kendall Payne)
2007-07-09
Written By Kendall Payne
There is estimated 27 million people worldwide who are involved in some form of modern-day slavery. 80% of them are young women and children.


The term "human trafficking" can be applied in all cases where the use of "force, fraud or coercion" is used to get people to work or have sex against their will.


Next to the illegal trades in drugs and arms, human trafficking is the third-largest and fastest-growing criminal enterprise in the world.


Of the 800,000 people trafficked across international borders every year, more than 17,00 of them ended up in the United States of America.
Touch


Don’t touch me, Don’t touch me there (2x)
I am bare and he is staring, we are trapped and caged like animals
I am small it isn’t fitting. I am screaming but no one’s listening
Don’t touch me, Don’t touch me there


I forgot what it feels like to feel safe, I forgot what it feels like to feel brave
A shattered soul never heals, this heart of flesh has turned to steal
I’ve forgotten how to feel


He liked her, he liked her that way
He broke her she has never been the same
Can you imagine? Can you fathom such a place where evil spreads it’s seed?
It’s upon us, It’s beneath us, It’s up to us to do something
He liked her, he liked her that way…


Listen little children to the story of a girl who found her knight and shining armor
When he saved her from the dragon he was strong and not afraid that there was
Smoke and there was fire and they lived happily ever after in his castle far away
Listen little children to the story of a girl