I WANT TO TELL YOU LIES

I want to tell that littleboy his Mom will be just fine

I want to tell that dad wegot his daughter out in time

I want to tell that wife herhusband will be home tonight

I don't want to tell it likeit is,  I want to tell them lies

You didn't put their seatbelts on, you feel you killed your

kids

I want to say you didn't ...but in a way, you did

You pound your fists into mychest, you're hurting so inside

I want to say you'll be ok, I want to tell you lies

You left chemicals withinhis reach and now it's in his eyes

I want to say your son willsee, not tell you he'll be blind

You ask me if he'll be OK,with pleading in your eyes

I want to say that yes hewill, I want to tell you lies

I can see you're crying asyour life goes up in smoke

If you'd maintained thatsmoke alarm, your children may have

woke

Don't grab my arm and ask me if your family is alive

Don't make me tell youthey're all dead, I want to tell you

lies

I want to say she'll be ok,you didn't take her life

I hear you say you love herand you'd never hurt your wife

You thought you didn't drinktoo much, you thought that you

could

drive

I don't want to say howwrong you were, I want to tell you

lies

 

You only left her for amoment, it happens all the time

How could she have fell fromthere? You thought she couldn't

climb

I want to say her neck's notbroke, that she will be just fine

I don't want to say she'sparalyzed, I want to tell you lies

I want to tell this teen hisbuddies didn't die in vain

Because he thought that it'dbe cool to try to beat that train

I don't want to tell himthis will haunt him all his life

I want to say that he'llforget, I want to tell him lies

You left the cabinet openand your daughter found the gun

Now you want me to undo thedamage that's been done

You tell me she's your onlychild, you say she's only five

I don't want to say shewon't see six, I want to tell you lies

He fell into the pool whenyou just went to grab the phone

It was only for a secondthat you left him there alone

If you let the damn phonering perhaps your boy would be alive

But I don't want to tell youthat, I want to tell you lies

The fact that you werespeeding caused that car to overturn

And we couldn't get them outof there before the whole thing

burned

Did they suffer? Yes, theysuffered,  as they slowly burned

alive

But I don't want to saythose words, I want to tell you lies

But I have to tell it likeit is, until my shift is through

And then the real liesbegin, when I come home to you,

You ask me how my day was,and I say it was just fine

I hope you understand,sometimes, I have to tell you lies

Dedicated to all the PoliceOfficers, Firefighters, EMTs, Paramedics,

Dispatchers, EmergencyFlight Crews, Emergency Physicians, and Emergency

Nurses who deal with thetragedies of life and death. The saddest of all,

being those that involvechildren, and could have been prevented.