i'm not too young

i'm not too young to fall in love

i'm not too young to smoke

i'm not too young to defend myself

if ever i'm provoked

i'm not too young you mark my words

to be left on the shelf

i'm not too young

i'm over one

next year i will be twelve

i'm not as daft as one might think

if one's the word to use

for why not instead of one

must mustn't one instead use two's

i won't say that it makes it any easier

but still it goes to show

that one can do what one must do

with two's or three's or four's

and while we're on the subject

let me say that for a start

although i failed my eleven plus

i really did try hard

and i've come to this conclusion

right or wrong abut exams

you pass only because your memory

failed to go blank

i'm not too young to pay the price

for things i didn't do

i'm not too young they tell me

so i guess it must be true

i'm not too young to cry out loud

in northern ireland name

i'm not too young i'm everyone

a bomb has ever maimed

and by and large it's true to say

that even as we speak

a child not out in africa

but believe it or not here

is learning what it feels like

to exist without much food

and waits in what he calls his home

to be forcibly removed