the children (full version)

we spend all our lives running away

so far away from here

what we see is all we get

when we close out minds from all we know is there

when you live in a box-tight world

you won't know what you have until

what you have been told

and the children

don't you know why?

obedience goes without question

and the children

seen and not heard

will not be silent forever

'cause we are

you know we are the children

suddenly it's happening your hypocrisy

your thought have become dead to me

and bullets hit me just the way i am

but only if i teach

if i teach

slow your crying

break me down

so you can build me up

to what you say fit

what you say fit

and the children

don't you know why?

obedience goes without question

and the children

seen and not heard

will not be silent forever

'cause we are

we are the children

tell me

when was it ever wrong

not to want to be a clone of society

just another brick in the wall

my individuality isn't on your list of requirements

it is my personal identity

i choose to live by

my desire: to make a mark

living against the machine you have created against me

so you have forgotten the years of finding yourself

let me remind you

i speak for my generation saying: we will not go quietly into your pounds

we will not be swallowed by the crowds

we will not live by the lines you've drawn up for us

we will draw our own

because we are the children

the children

don't you know why?

obedience goes without question

the children

seen and not heard

will not be silent forever

'cause we are

we are the children

tell us why

obedience goes without question

and the children

seen and not heard

will not be silent forever

'cause we are

we are the children