This Young Girl Got Pregnant Lord And She Isnt Married by Father Malcolm Boyd Lyrics
This young girl got pregnant, Lord
And she isn't married
There was this guy you see
And she'd had a little too much to drink
It sounds so stupid, but the loneliness was real
Where were her parents in all this?
It's hard to know
For the girl, they probably seemed indifferent
Absorbed in their familiar routines
Uninterested in her real life
But did she ever try to tell them about it?
And would they have listened?
Now the guy doesn't want anything to do with hеr
He's tied up in some job and is vеry busy
He's especially annoyed about the idea of a child
And wonders why she didn't know better
He thought she understood what the rules were
A girl doesn't have to get pregnant these days if she doesn't want to
The girl is sitting across from me now so cool and collected
She can't even admit to herself how hurt she is
And goes on analysing the situation with bits of freshman psychology
And meanwhile there's a new life growing inside her
Making new demands on her
Does the text book have an answer to that?
There's nothing I had for her with the guy
She tells me he's really in love with somebody else
She's not in love with anyone
She's sure of that
And she's honest enough to admit
Even knowing what she does now
That she'd go back to sleeping with the guy
Does she really think that's all she needs?
She admits she's thought of suicide
But says she doesn't have the strength to make any real decision
Let alone that one
What am I gonna tell her, Jesus?
How can I help her understand the nature of the love she's looking for?
And she isn't married
There was this guy you see
And she'd had a little too much to drink
It sounds so stupid, but the loneliness was real
Where were her parents in all this?
It's hard to know
For the girl, they probably seemed indifferent
Absorbed in their familiar routines
Uninterested in her real life
But did she ever try to tell them about it?
And would they have listened?
Now the guy doesn't want anything to do with hеr
He's tied up in some job and is vеry busy
He's especially annoyed about the idea of a child
And wonders why she didn't know better
He thought she understood what the rules were
A girl doesn't have to get pregnant these days if she doesn't want to
The girl is sitting across from me now so cool and collected
She can't even admit to herself how hurt she is
And goes on analysing the situation with bits of freshman psychology
And meanwhile there's a new life growing inside her
Making new demands on her
Does the text book have an answer to that?
There's nothing I had for her with the guy
She tells me he's really in love with somebody else
She's not in love with anyone
She's sure of that
And she's honest enough to admit
Even knowing what she does now
That she'd go back to sleeping with the guy
Does she really think that's all she needs?
She admits she's thought of suicide
But says she doesn't have the strength to make any real decision
Let alone that one
What am I gonna tell her, Jesus?
How can I help her understand the nature of the love she's looking for?