Children - Martin Jondo

Ain’t it hard to see the children

And to see them having no place to go, Lord yeah

Ain’t it hard to reveal them

That it’s so, so hard — oh — it’s so, so hard to find a place where there’s

love?

The tide has been low and the tide has been high

Still I see teardrops but why won’t them dry?

Their souls hear them crying, their souls they can’t fly

The devil’s hate he broke the wings of their life

Oh please all of your prophets come and teach all your sheep

The shepherd never said fight until one man a bleed

And the words of the wise they live in charity

Teach the blind and the deaf 'til them hear and them see

Didn’t you know, what goes up friend one day it comes down

Didn’t you know, what goes round sure one day it comes round

Didn’t you know, what you bury one day it will grow?

Lord, I see the trouble come

And I’m tired of walking the same circle I’ve been toiling day and night in my

life

And I’m of plying the phoney game of saying every little thing will gonna be

alright

And I’m tired of seeing the people acting like they are the great hero

And I’m bored of people fighting and screaming like sandpit fools

Oh, oh my Lord

So are the children we love the children we hate

The stone age’s back, heh friend, rumours say it didn’t fade

So all the victims we buried and all the tortured souls

They became zombie angels danger now them coming out

Dread, dread, dread, dread, dread became this time

And the wild, wild west no it will enter our lines

Lord so mad, mad, mad most of the people got blind

Now they spread, spread, spread plenty, plenty more lies

But the deaf and blind won’t hear, won’t see

So I and I shedding tear, tear by tear when I say

(Children, children) think about the afterlife

(children, children) only some of you survive

(children, children) I wish you the best

(children, children) though your load is the heaviest

(Children, children) jump an run and save your life

(children, children) Babylon can’t send no light

(children, children) cool down, meditate

(children, children) 'cause Jah love is always there

(children, children…)