I saw a girl take a chance tonight
on something that was not her fault.
I saw a girl take a chance tonight,
but she failed to halt
to see what was going on around her.

She rolled the die
and all he did was make her cry.

His violence was sickening
and her ignorance deafening.
You would think that she could see
all the hurting and suffering
that was coming to be
in front of our very eyes.
“I love you” was just a lie.

In front of her friends,
he’d call her names.
When things went wrong,
guess who was to blame?

Tonight, we walked hand in hand
across the street.
In fact, I thought that I had helped
to make her decision complete.
She would stand up and be strong
and do what she knew she had to do all along.

Unfortunately, it didn’t end up that way.
She insisted on going home with him,
suffice it to say.
She took the chance and rolled the die,
And no longer is she the only one that cries.