RAP TEXT 1 “DANCE (written and performed by my son)
Adopted as a baby from Colombia.
Experienced a couple of days in incubator.
During the operation my vocal cord was hit.
That is why sometimes talking is so difficult.
My mother couldn't take care of me
She kept the pain and sadness hidden.
She had no money for today and tomorrow.
Child protection was worried.
I see this image so often on my phone.
Abandoning your child in such countries is common.
It doesn't matter because I am and remain her son.
I am grateful to her that I live here now.
There I might not have survived my life
Here I have everything but that does not make me better.
Those people walk for miles without shoes, let alone shoelaces.
RAP TEXT 2 “FINDING MYSELF” (written and performed by my son)
I had to find myself because I was lost.
I turned to my mother because she helped me survive.
I had to find myself, I used to be angry.
I was not a boy who chose his own path.
Even though I was suspended again my mother was there for me
because I was unmanageable.
Therapy was needed, that was during school.
I had to find myself because my head was full at the time.
I could not be in class because it gave me stress.
I already knew myself, I have to leave now.
I am also leaving all those bad times behind.
I came home - my Mom didn't look so happy again.
It was not your fault but it was me.
I already knew in my head this memory always stays with me.
I was in a place when it had to be that way.
I didn't like so many days at school.
I then thought of my mother because she was in pain.
I already felt big but at that time I was only small.
I did not know then what was going on in my brain.
So many things in my head, it just looked like a train
It was not derailed, it happily stayed in line.
But I know it all had to be that way.
Chorus:
I had to find myself because I was lost.
I then turned to my mother because she helped me survive.