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A Public Safety Issue: Kids Sing "Penetrates," "Mutilates," & "Bleeds With Me" in Cassabrie | Ep 367

• Founder of Voices for Voices®, Justin Alan Hayes • Season 4 • Episode 367

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A Public Safety Issue: Kids Sing "Penetrates," "Mutilates," & "Bleeds With Me" in Cassabrie | Ep 367

A shaky handheld video. A young voice in the woods. Lyrics about bondage, despair, and the fading of prayer. That combination stopped us cold, and it led to a wider conversation about what happens when heavy themes reach kids without the guardrails of context or adult support. We walk through the exact lyrics from Bryan Davis’s Masters and Slayers, then look closely at two YouTube performances by minors: one a cappella, one with piano and flute. Public domain does not mean child-ready, and a melody can make intense images feel safe when they aren’t.

We’re not debating whether art can grapple with darkness; it can and often should. Our focus is on who is asked to carry that weight, how they’re guided, and what safety looks like when young performers step into adult themes. We unpack language that references shackles, mutilation, and crushed hope, then consider how repetition, setting, and presentation shape a child’s experience. We also lay out simple steps for parents and educators: preview the full text, frame the material with clear context, watch for stress signals during practice, and debrief thoughtfully after performance. Guidance is not censorship; it is care.

If you’re a parent, teacher, or youth leader navigating book-based performances and school showcases, this conversation offers practical tools and a framework to make informed choices. We want kids to explore courage, justice, and empathy without confusing trauma language for routine drama. Listen to our breakdown, share it with someone who selects youth repertoire, and tell us where you draw the line. If this resonates, subscribe, rate, and leave a review so more families and educators can find it—and join the conversation on how to keep young voices safe while letting them be heard.

We raise a public safety concern after finding minors performing a song from Bryan Davis’s Masters and Slayers with graphic, despairing imagery and no visible adult guidance. We read the lyrics, review two YouTube performances, and explain why context and consent matter for young performers.

• global audience thanks and purpose of the alert
• source details for the book, author and YouTube videos
• full lyric read-through highlighting bondage, despair and doubt motifs
• analysis of a cappella performance by a minor in a forest setting
• review of an instrumental version performed by minors
• concerns about age appropriateness, context and supervision
• guidance for parents to preview, frame and debrief heavy content
• closing reminder to watch our children and elevate safety concerns

If you can smash that subscribe button, give us a big thumbs up, like, follow, share, comment. Interested in being a guest on the show, reach out. Please be a voice for you or somebody in need.

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0:00 Welcome And Global Audience Thanks

0:39 Why This Is A Safety Alert

2:45 Introducing The Song And Author

5:59 Reading The Lyrics Aloud

9:31 Viewing The A Cappella Video

19:11 Assessing Age And Context

21:06 Instrumental Version By Minor Children

27:44 Final Lyric Review And Concerns

31:28 Guidance For Parents And Closing

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Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes:

Hey everyone, it's Justin here, Voices for Voices. Another episode. We're just uh knocking them down and bringing you information, bringing you uh experiences, uh mental health, uh, public safety concerns, public safety health, and that's what this episode is all about. So thank you for watching, listening. Over 90 countries, almost hitting a hundred, nine hundred cities across the world. So whether you're watching or listening, thank you so much. If you can smash that subscribe button, if you can give us a big thumbs up, if you can like, follow, share, comment. Uh interested in being a guest on the show, reach out. We'd love to have you on. Thank you so much for joining us today. Fortunately, again, to this uh this episode is a public safety, public health concern. It was brought to our attention. The information we are going to be sharing and showing is uh gathered uh from uh number one YouTube. Uh so it's a uh uh a public domain. So uh the information uh was posted on there, and we wanted to uh make sure that that's very clear that no way, shape, or form did voices for voices. Justin Alan, Hayes, David Solomon, anybody on our team, uh create, recreate, uh write the lyrics, record. We didn't do any of that. We're just pulling information that was brought to our attention that we think is very, very, very troubling, especially for you parents out there like I am. And so we're gonna just jump right in. Uh, so what we're gonna do is first we are going to share our screen and let's see if I can do this correctly.

Speaker 2:

Um let's do over the shoulder.

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes:

Let's try this. It's something new. Okay. So here we are. Uh what we're gonna do first is uh we're gonna read you some lyrics from a song that was written by uh Bryan Davis, somebody you may know, may have heard of, um, in uh in the writing world, uh, or just may not know of him. And so again, our big here is what I'm gonna do when I do a share. I'm just gonna do a full share because I I want to make sure. Here we go. Let's just do content only. There. Out there. And so it's a public health, public safety concern. Uh, that this is this is available, this is out here. This has been out for 15 years, so this is not something that was uh put out yesterday, today, uh recently. Uh, and so again, this is uh this is posted on YouTube, and so what we're gonna do is we're gonna read the lyrics, we're gonna watch the troubling, what we view as troubling uh uh video, and then we're gonna revisit the lyrics just uh to bring this to a close. So uh the lyrics are for Cassabrie's or Cassabrie's song. Again, we pulled this from YouTube, and it's from Brian Davis, author, no matter how much anything. So Cassabrie's song from the book Masters and Slayers by Bryan Davis. So you may have heard of this song, uh, this uh this individual, uh, you may have heard of this book, Masters and Slayers. Uh, there is a little bit of a twist to Masters and Slayers. Um I'll leave it at that. But right now, Masters and Slayers, uh written by Bryan Davis. And this song is pulled what appears to be from the book Masters and Slayers, who again was written, uh, what was again written by Brian Davis. So we're gonna read read through the lyrics just to make sure we're uh we're all on the same page. Okay. So here we go. It's a tough read. Uh again, if you have children, uh, if if you can have them uh maybe leave the room for a few minutes, that'd probably be the best to do. So the lyrics to Cassabrie's song from the book Masters and Slayers by Bryan Davis. And it also appears uh in the back of Masters and Slayers, uh, there's a chord progression. Uh that uh what we also have a video of uh of that that we're going to share. So here's the lyrics. The claw of bondage penetrates, mutilates. You share their pain deep within. Feel the sin that binds their wrists, their legs, their hearts, and pierces souls with angry darts, deflating hope, and ceasing prayer to God above who doesn't care. Or isn't there? Is life unfair? Yet this I swear, if heroes march into the square, their swords withdrawn, their courage bared, then hands unbound will fill the sky, and hope restored will make them fly to lands of freedom, chains asunder Asunder, to clap and worship hearts in wonder, that God in mercy heard their cries and sent a friend who dried their eyes. And now my friend, cry with me, bleed with me, you share my pain, on your back, feel the rack that stretches souls till faith is bare, and shackles hearts and sows despair, for slavish slavish strife and brutal bonds destroy all hope in life beyond this darkened pond will you respond and bring our dawn when heroes march into the square, their swords withdrawn, their courage bared, then hands unbound will fill the sky, and hope restored will make them fly, to lands of freedom chains asunder, to clap in worship, hearts in wonder, that God in mercy heard their cries and sent a friend who dried their eyes.com and here we are going to uh go to a video that uh uh somebody looks to be singing. And so let me make sure that I have the audio. I want to share the sound as well. Okay. So again, we just read the lyrics. Now we're going to see what we f also feel is a public safety, public health concern. Then this is from YouTube. Listen, turn up the volume. Okay. Uh, what do you think about all that? What do you think about all that? Uh to me, it looks like somebody that is a minor age-wise. They're being filmed in a forest. You can hear maybe a dog barking in the background. Looks like uh this uh this child's sister recorded this. Um again, this song in the back of Masters and actually because I'm gonna pull open the lyrics again because it's that time.

Speaker 1:

So I'm gonna do that.

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes:

And we're gonna go here to where the lyrics are. So uh these lyrics are in Masters and Slayers. I think it's in Master Angers and Dragons. I apologize. This is a song, Cassabrie's song, from the book Masters and Slayers by Bryan Davis. He also has the chord progression in case somebody wants to play an instrument, and so this child uh looks uh first off. Uh let me just pull this out real quick so we can see. So I'm gonna go back to the beginning and show you what I was saying about being you know fifteen fifteen years old. Oh okay. So here is the end of it, Cassabrie Song by Bookish Queen. And uh 15 years old is this video. So this video of this child. Okay, good. I mean, not good this happened, but good that we're we'll share this. So uh this individual and we're gonna download a thumbnail. So we have a picture. This uh child is singing in the forest, as you can see. Not much around. He's singing this song who's at the book, uh the uh the the song is at the end of Masters and Slayers, is written by Bryan Davis, and also uh we didn't show, but there's also progression of someone's applause. Music um to this particular song. So we thought maybe, hey, why don't we maybe find let's find one, right? Let's let's go to the screen sharing and let's make sure we got the sound. I know anything with technology, it's um it's always okay, so share sound. And so let's see if this goes any better. So these are like to be two miners that are playing the song. Let's see. Never mind here. So let's head on head on back to let's I'm gonna do this. We're gonna do a stop share, and then we're gonna go back one final time just to review the lyrics. Um and so there was an a cappella, uh a child singing a cappella. I didn't see any adults there. Uh the same thing well with uh the music with the flute and the and the piano, and so we're one last time. Uh we're not gonna share this sound this time. So let me go share.

Speaker 1:

Okay, here we go.

Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes:

Just wanted to make sure. So, one last time. What we've been showing you is a public safety, public health concern. Uh, we have children that are uh recording the song that is in the back of the first uh Masters and Slayers book by author Bryan Davis, and the song is called Cassabrie's Song from the book Masters and Slayers by Bryan Davis, who is an author. Who wrote the song? Who put the song in the book? Who wrote the music that the children were playing in the second video? So one last time. The lyrics, the clause of bondage penetrates, mutilates, you share their pain deep within, feel the sin that binds their wrists, their legs, their hearts, and pierces souls with angry darts, deflating hope, and ceasing prayer, to God above who doesn't care, he does care. Or isn't there is life unfair? Yet this I swear, if heroes march into the square, their swords withdrawn, their courage bared, then hands unbound will fill the sky, and hope restored will make Make them fly to lands of freedom, chains asunder, to clap and worship hearts in wonder. That God in mercy heard their cries and sent a friend who dried their eyes. And now, my friend, cry with me. Bleed with me, you share my pain. On your back, feel the rack that stretches souls till faith is bare. And shackles hearts and sows despair. First slavish strife and brutal bonds, destroy all hope and life beyond. This darkened pond will you respond? And bring our dawn. When heroes march into the square, their swords withdrawn, their courage bared, then hands unbound will fill the sky, and hope restored will make them fly to lands of freedom chains asunder, to clap and worship hearts in wonder. That God in mercy heard their cries and sent a friend who dried their eyes. Will you respond? Will you respond? Can find this at www.mastersandslayers.com. So we feel this is a public health, public safety concern, having children with no parents, no adults that we see around, um, that are talking about um some very um very descriptive words uh that uh we don't think children should be uh sharing and shown. So the fact that this book was put together and apparently it was aimed at children because you just saw and heard children singing a cappella, even though that was a little bit grainy. There's a child there, and there were two children, one playing the flute, one singing and playing the piano. So that's a public safety, public health concern. Anybody has children, uh that is why we did this show is to bring this to light and uh it is again uh one last time from the book. From so again, we feel it's a public health, public safety concern. Children being asked not only to read a book that has wording like this in it, but to sing a song in some type of a contest, and there's money more that we weren't able to show all of them to you. Uh we we we chose the chose to uh so Cassabrie's song again. We pulled this from YouTube. So we did not produce it. Uh it's been out there for 15 years, both of them. And it's from Bryan Davis. So Cassabrie's song from the book Masters and Slayers, written by Bryan Davis. He wrote the book, he wrote the song, he wrote the chord progression that you heard uh on by the flute and in the piano, and he wrote these lyrics. Uh, so uh thank you for bearing with us on this episode. It was very tough, very difficult to even go through as a host. And uh please uh watch your children, watch our children. Let's keep them safe, let's celebrate the voices, let them come forward, let all come forward to share if we feel that there is a public health, public safety concern, which we ultimately did, which is why we did this particular episode. So until next time, this is Justin Alan Hayes with Voices for Voices, and we ask that you please be a voice for you or somebody in need. Take care. We'll see you next time.

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