Amys song

It's 7 years to the day the knock came on the door, and they snatched my baby girl from me and she came home no more,
In the cruelest twist of irony where nothing's making sense, except the fact that ignorance it's truly no defence,
Well the system got its hooks in her, the dark and lonley nights, reminding me each day they made me sign away my rights,
As she ended up in foster care the light gone from her eyes, I feel as though I'm grieving and it comes as no surprise,
So they placed her with her Auntie and it cut me like a knife, soon as I knew her aim was to erase me from her life,
Replace me as her mother, well that ain't the way it goes, all contact with her stolen from me, why do you suppose ?
Well they call it child protection, it's a double ended noose, this isn't child protection this is f*cking child abuse,
In the cruelest twist of irony I'm empty, cold and numb, and knowing that my little girl's growing up without her mum,
I close my eyes to see if I can still recall her face, of kindness or humility it seems there ain't a trace? In his sister now her guardian who's hurting Amy too, by keepinf us apart but tell me what am I to do?
But cross the days off as they pass, the tunnels end I've seen, there's only 2 more years to go and she will be sixteen.
It's the only thing that helps me to get up and face the day, it's been 7 years of heartache since they took my girl away,
In an empty world that's ever cold how am I meant to cope? It seems to me I hung myself when they handed me the rope,
And also built the gallows as to keep my life in check, go through life like the condemned with a noose around my neck.
So I hope that you'll wait for me babe, our time is yet to come, long for the day you're back to stay, right here beside your mum,
Make up for all the years passed so much time we have lost, and as for those responsible I'm sure they'll pay the cost?
Cause they drove a wedge between us and they snuffed out all the light, when they stole so many years from us for which they had no right.