• Vicious Rumors
• (Hed) Pe
• Portugal. The Man
• The Mavericks
• Twarres
• EMF
• Jeannie C. Riley
• Bill Anderson
• Sabertooth Zombie
• Styles P
• Panama Kings
• Patty Larkin
• Martin Jondo
• Mavericks
• Love Like Blood
• Joe South
• America
• Delta Spirit
• VV Brown

Children, finish what we started.
They may only live in the world we give them.
Children, will they be brokenhearted?
They may never know what they're missing.
We gotta take it easy,
We gotta take it slow,
We gotta leave 'em something
Somewhere to go.
All the children are the heirs (children are the heirs)
Taking what we give them.
Will they even care, (will they even care?)
Or will they do what we did?
Children, staring at the ocean
They just want to play in the water -- but it's black.
We gotta take it easy,
We gotta take it slow,
We gotta leave 'em something
Somewhere to go.
All the children are the heirs (children are the heirs)
Taking what we give them.
Will they even care, (will they even care?)
Or will they do what we did?
We are all the victims of our heavy hands
Who will make the children understand?
Children are the heirs (children are the heirs)
Taking what we give them.
Will they even care, (will they even care?)
Or will they do what we did?

There's something happening here
What it is aint exactly clear
But there's a man with a gun over there
And he's telling me i got to beware
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
The battle lines have been drawn
Nobody's right - when everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
But carrying so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field day for the beast
One thousand people in the streets
Singing songs and carrying signs
Some that say "hooray for our side"
Oh lord
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
It cuts into your soul when you sleep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step outta line, the man comes
And takes you away
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound

Birth me of blood oil
salt sugar water pales
build me black Jesus
'cause Jesus can't save me
shackles pulling at your hair
shine me from roots out
wash me form the neck down
cut me fat stores
take me to the tree line
I'm a headin' down down down
down to the river 'cause I don't believe in medicine
I'll crawl out shakin' pale
always got the answer I got ears all around me
burn up in black smoke
thick and pourin' down your throat
make me of bread walks
listen up with ears we're divin'
birth me of blood oil
salt sugar water pales
build me black jesus
shackles pulling at your hair
I'm a headin' down down down
down to the river 'cause I don't believe in medicine
I'll crawl out shakin' pale
always got the answer I got ears all around me
Tell your children we got another year comin'
oil stands the legs this body speaks in tongues
and croaks "I'm headin' down"
I'll walk down to the river where we met our pales
filled and spillin' like our southern friends
met that pale atop the rocks and moss
grass grips licks about our heels and bends
Tell your children we spent a year in this fire.
copper bands and hells getting lighter line up
in lines we can only get higher
Tell your children we got another year comin'

(Raul Malo)
A child who is raised by an unworthy hand
Has less of a chance being a man
Who will try to remember and then understand
Why a mother would cry
while a husband lay dead
Shot down by a gun of a runaway train
Called life in the fast lane
it all ends the same
Well the same children's lives
they will always regret
Are the children who never forget
A man ends up tired and walking alone
On a street corner singing for a penny a song
What he cannot remember was never his own
That's the answer he gives
when he speaks of his home
Well the streets are my life
I don't know anymore
Where the children's are junkies
and the ladies are whores
Well the same children's lives
they will always regret
Are the children who never forget
Chorus
Goodnight, goodnight sweet child
Why don't you dream with the angels
to forget for awhile
To forget of the life
that's been handed to you
Where everything's real,
yet nothing is true
Well perhaps you can change
what the cards always read
For the children who never forget
For a time they were counting
you out of this race
You stood up like a champion
that had fallen like grace
Never showing the anguish
that had covered your face
You were raped and forgotten
left to die in disgrace
Shot down by a gun of a runaway train
Called life in the fast lane
it all ends the same
Well the same children's lives
they will always regret
Are the children who never forget
Repeat chorus twice
Goodnight, goodnight sweet child
Why don't you dream with the angels
to forget for awhile

We're coming from far, over oceans of time
We're coming from places we once left behind
We're looking for love, in the heart of every man
We're looking for reasons we'll all understand
We are in need, we want a place for everyone
We shine through love, we are the children of the sun
We follow our dreams and we'll never stop
We follow our hopes and we'll never give up
Until we have found the warmth of the sun
Until we are one
We are in need, we want a place for everyone
We shine through love
We are forever on the run.
We are in need, we want a place for everyone
We shine through love, we are the children of the sun
We're coming from far, over oceans of time
We're coming from places we once left behind
We're looking for love, in the heart of every man
We're looking for reasons we'll all understand
We follow our dreams and we'll never stop
We follow our hopes and we'll never give up
Until we have found the warmth of the sun
Until we are one, the children of the sun.
We shine

Children, I know
You deserve, more than this world could ever give
Children, I know
You deserve, more than this world could ever give
Hold on, take your life
Hold on to each reality
They seem so far from you
But really they're close to you
You've got to break each precious dream
Until it breaks you heart in two
Build your life until you find
What's right for you
Children, I know
You deserve, more than this world could ever give
Don't let them take it all
'Cause you know they want to take it all
They seem so far from you
But really they're close to you
You've got to break each precious dream
Until it breaks your heart in two
Build your life, until you find
What's right for you
Children, I know
You deserve more than this world could ever give
Children, I know
You deserve, more than this world could ever give
Long live the new flesh
Long live the new flesh
Long live the new flesh
Don't let them take it all
'Cause you know they want to take it all
They seem so far from you
But really they're close to you
You've got to break each precious dream
Until it breaks your heart in two
Build your life, until you find
What's right for you
Long live the new flesh
Children, I know
You deserve more than this world could ever give
Children, I know
You deserve, more than this world could ever give
Children, I know
Children, I know
Children, I know

Children go run and jump and play you'll be men and women some day
Then you'll have to leave your world of make believe now children
Young carefree children
Children need someone to understand children need someone to hold their hands yeah
To cheer you when you're sad to spank you when you're bad
Now children haughty naughty children
Ride goes before destruction the Holy Spirit goes before the fall
Don't you know that we're all children and it's all for one and one for all
Oh children call each other names children playing grown up games
And the thing that's really sad we lose the faith we had
When we were children loud proud children
were children clowns proud children
Children who think that they are grown children with children of their own
From the cradle to the grave why must we all behave like children

Children we're acting like children instead of like a man and a fullgrown woman
We're acting like babies little bitty babies
And we're about to throw away a lifetime of good good loving
Love is not a game love is not a toy I'm not a little girl and you're not a little boy
But if we're not careful we're gonna destroy
A fairy tale that might have come true
By acting like children little bitty children
And we're about to throw away a lifetime of good good loving
Once upon a time we didn't fight everything was beautiful everything was right
And we make love instead of war every night
And I wanna go back to the good times
Stop acting like children little bitty children
Start acting like a man and a fullgrown woman
We're acting like babies little bitty babies

The Children of slaves lied down like pavers
Rotten streets of gold
The Children of god reached up in prayer
Despotic towers of old
The children of swine shook hands to wager
Sold souls for golden gates
The Children of sadists voted all in favor

[Intro: Pharoahe Monch (Styles P) {police sirens in the background}]
These lil' niggaz is crazy!
What the fff...?
This is our future?
It's 'bout the children, man...
Daamn!
Ayo, P! (I pray to God for the kids, man!)
No doubt, man, f'real! (wherever they are...)
Real talk! (it's real out here!)
Come on!
[Styles P {Sample from 20th Century Steel Band's: "Heaven And Hell Is On Earth"}:]
{Children} in the hood seem to die at a young age,
Wakes and funerals'll make it feel like a Sunday. (damn!)
All they talk about - is money and gunplay (that's all!)
Only light they gettin' is the one from the sun rays. (no lie!)
{Children!} No light bulb bright idea (no idea!)
Shame when (it's a shame!) "kill that nigga" is the right idea!
Like a nigga lose his life, every night out here (every night!)
Kinda hot. - But they talk about ice out here! (it's hot out here!)
{Chiiildren, children} - is all some I'll shit! (I'll shit!)
12 to 19 all ready to kill shit. (soldiers!)
All of 'em is numb, don't none of 'em feel shit; (don't feel... SHIT!)
It's just like a war zone, that's on some real shit. (it's real, homie!)
{Children!} Homie - this is O.G. talk;
Blow O.G. Kush (O.Geeee!) (yeah!) - for O.G. cough. (O.Geeee!) (yeah!) [coughing]
In the low-key V, shakin' police off! (shake 'em off!)
Don't engage witcha enemy, you know he soft. (ya hear me?)
Whattup? - {Children} - is all missin' the roof over 'em; (missin'!)
Lil' niggaz is hard, they don't know how to school 'em. (they hard!)
They know how a sucka or a herb or a fool look, (they seen that!)
Know how a crack pack dope or the tool look! (they seen that!)
{Children!} Yeah! - The shit is real out here! (it's real!)
Swear blood is like oil how it spill out here. (spill it!)
If you ain't from out here then don't chill out here; (don't chill out here!)
{Chiiildren, children!} The 9 mill' - might pop your grill out here. - Yeah! {children!}
[Chorus: Pharoahe Monch - singin' {20th Century Steel Band sample}]
Some days I might thank - God I don't have nooooo {children}!
To struggle this hard and it's a hassleeee. {children!}
Gotta teach 'em how to survive and wiiiin, {children!}
The whole future of the world depeeends on {children}!
So I talk wise and speak clearlyyyy, {children}
But still sometimes they don't hear me! {children!}
But when I open my heart I catch feelings, {children!}
Cause the kids need hope, they need healing. {children!} - The childrennnn...
[Styles P {20th Century Steel Bannd Sample}:]
The birds play video games, (games!)
Imitate wack rappers and the video dames. (brain washed!)
PlayStation, X-Box, laptop, desktop; (damn!)
I be askin' myself: when will the mess stop? (when will it stop?)
{Children!} Snotty lil' niggaz is too rude (too rude!)
All I know is cooler than YouTube - is makin' it easy (gypsies!)
With nothin' realistic you can see on the TV (NOTHIN'!)
But they call this reality show. (yeah?!)
{Children,} it's time to - make 'em grasses grow! (make 'em grasses grow!)
They'll - make 'em lazy. - It's so crazy! (so crazy!)
Me, I stay hazy. - Always keep a Dutch steamed; (steamed!)
Cause they even't makin' no buttons; it's just a touch screen! (damn!)
{Children} - and they don't talk, they text; (uh!)
L-O-L, (L-O-L!) W-T-F! (W-T-F!) (you know...)
And I be like: "Damn, what the fuck is next? " (what the fuck is next!)
Cause Mr. Illuminati seem to cut them checks. - Yeah!
[Chorus]
[Outro: 20th Century Steel Band sample]
"Children! Children!
Children! Children!
Childre... child...
Chiiiild... children! [beat fades out]
Child... child...
Child... child...

i wake up in the middle of it with my clothes on
sweatin thinkin am i ever gonna wake up here again
im screamin at the sky for a little meaning
im laughing at myself for believing
i cant think of the things i used to tell myself
i cant deal with questions that you left me with
im too young to know, i cant cope
is a little bit of clarity to much to be asking for?
its not ok to leave us when no one knows
its just not fair to say that, then close the door
cos i dont know if youre thinking or dreaming
and we're hangin on with not much hope and your

I remember walking with holes in our shoes
I remember we weren't the kind to make an excuse
I remember thinking we would break all the rules
Where are those children now? Where are those children now?
I remember hellfire and brimstone be damned
I remember trembling at the touch of your hand
Crossing the desert to the California sand
Where are those children now? Where are those children now?
I remember angels who lent us their wings
Cigarettes and paperback poetry kings
Kicking up dust like we didn't need a thing
Where are those children now? Where are those children now?
Now the curtain calls and fails to fill me
I wander down the halls that used to thrill me
I remember singing, "San Francisco Bay Blues"
I remember being happy just paying our dues
I remember thinking we had nothing to lose
Where are those children now? Where are those children now?

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
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
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
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 stoneage’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
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
And so
Children, children think about the afterlife
Only some of you survive
I wish you the best
Though your load is the heaviest
Children, children jump an run and save your life
Babylon can’t send no light
Cool down meditate

A child who is raised by an unworthy hand
Has less of a chance of being a man
Who will try to remember and then understand
Why a mother would cry while a husband lay dead
Shot down by a gun of a runaway train
Called life in the fast lane it all ends the same
Well the same children's lives they will always regret
Are the children who never forget
A man ends up tired and walking alone
On a street corner singing for a penny a song
What he cannot remember was never his own
That's the answer he gives when he speaks of his home
Well the streets are my life I don't know anymore
Where the children's are junkies and the ladies are whores
Well the same children's lives they will always regret
Are the children who never forget
Goodnight, goodnight sweet child
Why don't you dream with the angels to forget for awhile
To forget of the life that's been handed to you
Where every thing's real yet nothing is true
Well perhaps you can change what the cards always read
For the children who never forget
For a time they were counting you out of this race
You stood up like a champion that had fallen like grace
Never showing the anguish that had covered your face
You were raped and forgotten left to die in disgrace
Shot down by a gun of a runaway train
Called life in the fast lane it all ends the same
Well the same children's lives they will always regret
Are the children who never forget
Goodnight, goodnight sweet child
Why don't you dream with the angels to forget for awhile
To forget of the life that's been handed to you
Where every thing's real yet nothing is true
Well perhaps you can change what the cards always read
For the children who never forget
Goodnight, goodnight sweet child
Why don't you dream with the angels to forget for awhile
To forget of the life that's been handed to you
Where every thing's real yet nothing is true
Goodnight, goodnight sweet child
Why don't you dream with the angels to forget for awhile
To forget of the life that's been handed to you

I don't sleep so I don't dream
and again I don't want to fall
your name's burned or days are burried
forgotten at all
so I said some day that
I would return to an end
everything to loosw will be just
will be just a friend
yearning oh children
children of love
everyone seems like a little
child like a suicide...
inocence gone wild
everyone seems like a little child
like a suicide candidate
I wish to be in your dreams
every night, nights you'll hate
you know that I could have
waited for a long time
but the thuth is spoken now
and to tell the truth is no crime
you should not feel flattered
it's not yours belong
and dreams are just like
souveniers which I don't want to keep
I don't need the reasons

Children
Go and run and jump and play
You'll be
Men and women someday
Then you'll have to leave
Your world of make believe
Now children
Young (children)
Carefree (children)
Children
Children (children)
Need someone to understand
Children
Need someone to hold their hands
Yeah
To cheer you when you're sad
To spank you when you're bad now
Children
Haughty (children)
Naughty (children)
Children
Pride goes before destruction
A holy spirit goes before a fall
Don't you know that we're all children
And it's all for one and one for all mmm
Children (children)
Call each other names
Children
Playing grown-up games
And the things that's really sad
We lose the faith we had
When we were children
Loud (children)
Proud (children)
Children
Children (children)
Who think that they are grown
Children
With children of their own
From the cradle to the grave
Why must we all behave like
Children (na na na na na na na na na na na na)
Lost (children)
Lonely (children)
Children
Lost
Lonely
Children
Young
Carefree
Children
Growing
Young
Children
Lost
Lonely

The boy cried out
Gaily on the ground
At the joy
Of something he had found
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
The days are getting warmer now
The nights are getting shorter now
And you know we can make it 'cause you know we're alive
But we don't have to take it, any way we'll survive
If I were you
I'd throw it far away
But if you were me
You'd tell me I should stay
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together
Aw, come on children, get your heads back together again
Again, again and again and again
Again, and again and again

Children shut your eyes
We'll tell you what to see
This world is burning down
And you're the ones to lead
Now look into their hearts
All those who hold the lead
Don't listen to their lies
They only want one thing
Well, I only want one thing
They'll rob you from the truth
And they'll steal you from our house
The blind leading the blind
Don't hang around with their kind
'Cause I love the life I lead
And I know my enemies
Well, if God is on our side
Well, that's all you really need
Well, that's all we really need
Well, that's all I really need
Follow down the road
I was led before you were born
No it's not your choice
To pick your own fight
When you sitting second class
And as long as you're in control
Speaking when you're asked
You make your own stand
And you take your own stand
Well, I'll make my own stand

Buildings come crumbling
Right to the ground
And I can't help noticing
When I'm looking around
When I'm looking around
Windows can't see in 'em
To let me lies
We won't be taking it
Look 'em right in the eyes
Look 'em right in the eyes
Oh, if I had my way
I'd throw everything away
I'd draw it all up again
Keep walking with me
Oh, if I had my way
I'd give everything I have
To make everything okay
Sing it with me
Darkness falls and kills the light
Don't surrender, be alright
Fuse blow up like dynamite
And the children keep on singing, singing
Darkness falls and kills the light
Don't surrender, be alright
Innocence like flying kites
And the children keep on singing, singing
Walking down Penny Lane
Walk, walk of gold
Follow the rainbow
To the end of the road
To the end of the road
Still got me nothing
Nothing but road
They say 'It's funny'
I'm not getting the joke
I'm not getting the joke
Oh, if I had my way
I'd throw everything away
I'd draw it all up again
Keep walking with me
Oh, if I had my way
I'd give everything I have
To make everything okay
Sing it with me
Darkness falls and kills the light
Don't surrender, be alright
Fuse blow up like dynamite
And the children keep on singing, singing
Darkness falls and kills the light
Don't surrender, be alright
Innocence like flying kites
And the children keep on singing, singing
[Chiddy]
Chid, Miss V.V. Brown
I'll hold you down
Watching the tv, man, kids just want to be famous
And be a big star, rather be known than be nameless
If i had my away, i'd draw it all up again
Can't take a loss, we must stood up and win
Momma was hurting and she couldn't spend a penny more
But why nobody have real dreams anymore
Forget the issues and worries this is something about
Supporting optimistic dreams when it's crumbling down
Sing it with me
Darkness falls and kills the light
Don't surrender, be alright
Fuse blow up like dynamite
And the children keep on singing, singing
Darkness falls and kills the light
Don't surrender, be alright
Innocence like flying kites
And the children keep on singing, singing