Things We Learn To Know

Listen please listen
 You don't know what you're missing
 When you lay your intentions low
 You've been mistreated and beated and beated
 And these things you've learned to know
 I know Mrs. Imagene
 We met when I was 3
 But that was sometime ago
 She was a queen and he would beat her real mean
 But those things we didn't know
 Listen Mr. listen
 You don't know what you're missing
 When you lay your conviction down
 You've been mistreating by beating and beating
 These things in her that she's learned to know
 The kids were real young when they saw his long thumb
 How were they supposed to know
 That she was his slave
 When he would misbehave
 For how long the sheriff still don't know
 He went missing
 The day he was sentenced to life without parole
 Imagene still remembers
 The times he would beat her
 And those things we learn to know