Gas-soaked rag
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On the sidewalk in Bogota
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Shredded in minefields
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Decimated on the front lines
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Dead, the children of war
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For their fathers' ideas
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Idiots and bed-ridden
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Carve up the world
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Dead, the children of Bhopal
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Gone into the waters of the Ganges
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The lawyers cut deals
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Dead, the children of hate
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Near us or farther away
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Dead, the children of fear
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Idiots and soldiers
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Carve up the world
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Dead, the children of the Sahel
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Dead, the children of Seveso
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Dead, the trees, the birds
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Dead, the children of the road
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Last weekend of August
Daddy was probably boozing
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Idiots and torturers
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Carve up the world
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Dead, the child who lived in me
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And men pretty much brothers
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Men have gone crazy
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The river carries tears
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One day the child grabs a gun
Slaughter at the ministry
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Under the rubble, the bed-ridden