She had 13 kids, each one had 13 problems

Three uppers, ten downers, just to put up with this

And she don't know which children belong to which father

But she loves them all anyway and they each get a kiss

And the toilet ain't flushing and the toaster is smoking

The vacuum don't suck but it needs a new belt

But she saw the world through the eyes of a child

And remembers how good it was and how good it felt

He picked up the paper from the bitter cold morning

He had just gone to sleep, he had to get up for work

By morning he's a watchman and by night he's a waiter

In the late afternoon he works as a clerk

And he can't pay the doctor bills, he just can't afford the pills

The car's repossesed and the child support's due

But he saw the world through the eyes of a child

Big problems seem smaller and old things seem new

She was just six when she turned her first trick

Now she's thirteen and it don't make her sick

And she does lots of crystal and she owns her own pistol

Got a goldfish named Silver and a pimp who's named Rick

And some are like customers and some are like patients

She'd have gone back to school if she'd just had the patience

But she saw the world through the eyes of a child

None of the nightmares, and nothing to deny

She saw the world through the eyes of a child

Yes she's seen it all and she knows they're all lies