God Save the Child

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A dark night on the highway and an oncoming truck

Some poor suburbanite just ran out of luck

A wife and two children, waiting at home

They’re gonna find out soon enough

That they’re all alone

Sometimes this old world can be so cold

Bring a grown man to his knees every once in awhile

But tell me, what’re you gonna do

If you’re only 3 years old

And your only weapon’s a smile?

God save the child

Everywhere folks are fighting

Nobody seems to know what for

Nobody’s listening lo the victims

Of a hundred civil wars in the name of whoever

Can’t we stop these atrocities

The dead, the dying, the walking wounded

And a million refugees

Sometimes this old world can be so cold

Bring a grown man to his knees every once in awhile

But tell me, what’re you gonna do

If you’re only 3 years old

And your only weapon’s a smile?

God save the child

This was a beautiful planet

But that was once upon a time

Now, this ain’t no fairy tale

What we’re doing is a crime

How are you going to tell your children

How we destroyed the Earth?

If I we can’t lead by example

How will they know what life is worth?

Sometimes this old world can be so cold

Bring a grown man to his knees every once in awhile

But tell me, what’re you gonna do

If you’re only 3 years old

And your only weapon’s a smile?

Sometimes this old world can be so cold

Bring a grown man to his knees every once in awhile

But tell me, what’re you gonna do

If you’re only 3 years old

And your only weapon’s a smile?

God save the child

God save the child ...