Save The Children

(album: Save The Children - 1989)

Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Save 'em
As I look through my eyes, the world is in a state of confusion
Happiness is just an illusion
So, I kneel down and I begin to pray

Our father (heavenly father)
Who art in Heaven (heavenly father)
Hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven

And give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
Lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from all evil
For ever and ever and ever (ever, ever)

Save the children
And we might save the world
It's every mother's wish
For her boy and girl, oh

A child was born inside this city yesterday
His mother held him to her breast as she began to pray
Please let them grow up to be strong and know the truth

And have the chances to taste the innocence of youth
The innocence of youth, the innocence of youth
You know what we have to do

Save the children (save 'em)
And we might save the world
It's every mother's wish (every mother's wish)
For her boy and girl, oh

A baby starts out with his back against the wall
He has to learn to survive before he learn to crawl
He needs somebody who can give him a daddy hand

We brought them into this world, they deserve a chance
They deserve a chance, got to have a chance
Why can't we all understand? Ooh!
Save the baby, save him, ohh, ohh (ohh, ohh), save him

The world is lost in a bout of confusion (the world is lost, mm)
Happiness, happiness, happiness is just an illusion (stop, stop)
Somewhere it must end even if we have to start
Stop and start again, we're defending a man's sin

Oh, what's going on, what's going on, what's going on?
I can remember another friend of mine telling me (what's going on?)
Change gon' come, oh, yes it will

Save the children, ooh
And we might save the world
Every mother's wish (wish)
For her boy and girl, oh

(We gotta save, save, save the children) try to save the children
(Save, save the children) it's all on me and you
(Save, save the children) if you wanna save the children
(We gotta save the children) we gotta save the children, ooh

(Save, save the children) save what? Say it again
(Save, save the children) we have to save what?
(Save, save the children) who gotta save the children?
(We gotta save the children) ooh

Listen, headed in the wrong direction
No love, no love, no love, no love, no love, no love and affection

Like a heart-striking pain, trying to figure it out
No young boys playing in the park and having fun
They find their manhood at the barrel of a loaded gun
Can't see their future, just a tunnel with no light

I'm lost in the projects running from the night
Running from the night, running from the night
Running from the night, running from the night
Scared for the rest of their life

Save, save 'em, save the babies
It's all on me and you (save, save the children)

We gotta save the babies (save, save the children)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (save, save the children)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (we gotta save the children)
(Save, save the children) we, we, we, we, we gotta save, we gotta save, the children
Save 'em, save 'em, save 'em, save 'em, save 'em, baby

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down
We're just slowly moving to slow down
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop (I will thank my heart)
I will thank my heart, thank my heart (we've got to stop)
Will thank my heart the last