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`MIRRORS`
-Eric Bogle
Children are born with trust in their eyes
it`s the first thing that we betray
Children are born believing in magic
it`s the first thing we take away
Fill them with doubt instead of magic
and fear instead of trust
And after awhile, they`re just like us
On this earth there is a city
in a rich green pleasant country
Where they kill their children
the children of the streets
Free enterprise extermination
why waste rehabilitation?
a bullet is forever
It`s so final quick and cheap
And the despots all wear policemen`s badges
Kill to supplement their wages
Earn their bloody bounty
with the gun and the club and knife
While profit-concious businessmen
Upright solid citizens
Pay them a cew cruzeiros
for every murdered street kids life
(But they`re children!)
They`re garbage on the streets
(Oh the children!)
They`re beggars, whores and theives
(Oh pity the children!)
Cry pity if you will,
There`s none on the streets
of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
To bless this piece of paradise
High on a hill stands Jesus Christ
Gazing down with sightless eyes
at the daily blasphemy
A mocking marble coontradiction
arms spread wide in benediction
Suffer the little children,
suffer them to come to me
And the despots cry `amen, amen`
while they bow their knees to Bethlehem
They spit in the face of humankind
Turn our dreams to worthless dust
And the future, as it`s always done,
stares down the barrel of a gun
Which once more begs the question,
When will the despots come for us?
(But they`re children!)
Have you seen their eyes?
(Oh the children!)
Hard and wary and street-wise
(Oh pity the children!)
There are no children here
Only old eyes full of hunger
and hate and hopeless fear
(But they`re children!)
Abandoned and forsaken
(Oh the children!)
Useless human flotsam
(Oh pity the children!)
And pity us as well
For in our childrens` eyes
We see mirrors of ourselves Send " Mirrors" Ringtone to your Cell
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