2024

(album: Requiem - 1982)

The fire ant said to the cockroach
"A pity those humans have gone
Before they all died they always supplied us
With sugar and fruit and breadcrumbs"

Children willing to live
Want the children to grow
Not enough just to want to survive
Want the children to know

That children willing to live
Want the children to grow
Not enough just to want to survive
Want the children to know

The cockroach replied
"What annoys me
Is we've grown so incredibly tall
Now we've mutated and been radiated
And they're not here to pay for it all"

Children willing to live
Want the children to grow
Not enough just to want to survive
Want the children to know

They parted quite soon at the twilight
Day and night were just two hours long
Since the explosion's force gave a wobbling course
To the planet earth round the sun

Up there green dollar bills were in orbit
And new sounds joined the planetary tune
Where trash cans abounded and bellows resounded
As cows jumped right over the moon

Children willing to live
Want the children to grow (Sing it cockroach!)
Not enough just to want to survive
Want the children to know (Now the fire ant!)

Children willing to live
Want the children to grow
Not enough just to want to survive
Want the children to know (And now the insect chorus!)

Children willing to live
Want the children to grow
Not enough just to want to survive
Want the children to know

Children willing to live
Want the children to grow
Not enough just to want to survive
Want the children to know (Here's one for the arachnids!)

Children willing to live (Yeah! Twenty foot high, up in the sky)
Want the children to grow (Eating all the high rise pie)
Not enough just to want to survive (Come on baby, now, do it)
Want the children to know

Children willing to live
Want the children to grow
Not enough just to want to survive
Want the children to know