Hyde & Seek [The Falling Wallendas featuring Todd Sucherman]

Hyde & Seek
Written by Allen Keller and Scott Bennett

Lead Vocals by Scott Bennett

The children would torment me
My cleft palate and beriberi
In the attic, nobody heard
They broke my spirit, they broke their word

Oh please
Somebody look for me
The middle child
Playing hide and seek
A little meek
Won't somebody look for me?

Father Ritter called me in
Said the Lord died for my sins
So I kneeled, contrite and afraid
And when he locked the door, oh how I prayed

Oh, please won't somebody look for me
The middle child
Playing hide and seek
The little freak
Won't somebody look for me?

There was a girl
I was her world
We'd play hide and seek
She'd count to ten
Find me, but then again
She would always peek
I hid behind the big white oak
They never found her
I could not let her go

Oh, please won't somebody look for me
The middle child
Playing hide and seek
The little freak
Won't somebody look for me?

Please won't somebody look for me?
Won't somebody please?

Interpretation

Children can be cruel to other children who look different, have a disability, or are seen as weak.  Having a cleft palate and beriberi could lead to teasing or worse, such as saying "trust me" before leading the child to a place where no one could hear him or her being tortured.  A priest who first preaches the gospel to a child might turn around and abuse the child, physically and/or sexually, and it's never discovered.  A troubled and lonely child who is being abused ironically is sometimes apt to turn the tables and prey on another lonely child looking for a friend, and he might just strangle her behind a big tree on a playground while playing hide and seek.  Like Dr. Jekyll's alter ego, Mr. Hyde, in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the meek person under the right conditions may develop a ruthless alter ego as a protector, even developing Dissociative Identity Disorder.