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"MIRRORS"
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-Eric Bogle
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Children are born with trust in their eyes
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It's the first thing that we betray
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Children are born believing in magic
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It's the first thing we take away
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Fill them with doubt instead of magic
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And fear instead of trust
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And after awhile, they're just like us
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On this earth there is a city
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In a rich green pleasant country
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Where they kill their children
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The children of the streets
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Free enterprise extermination
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Why waste rehabilitation?
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A bullet is forever
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It's so final quick and cheap
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And the despots all wear policemen's badges
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Kill to supplement their wages
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Earn their bloody bounty
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With the gun and the club and knife
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While profit-concious businessmen
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Upright solid citizens
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Pay them a cew cruzeiros
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For every murdered street kids life
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(But they're children!)
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They're garbage on the streets
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(Oh the children!)
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They're beggars, whores and theives
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(Oh pity the children!)
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Cry pity if you will,
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There's none on the streets
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Of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
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To bless this piece of paradise
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High on a hill stands Jesus Christ
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Gazing down with sightless eyes
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At the daily blasphemy
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A mocking marble coontradiction
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Arms spread wide in benediction
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Suffer the little children,
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Suffer them to come to me
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And the despots cry "amen, amen"
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While they bow their knees to Bethlehem
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They spit in the face of humankind
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Turn our dreams to worthless dust
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And the future, as it's always done,
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Stares down the barrel of a gun
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Which once more begs the question,
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When will the despots come for us?
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(But they're children!)
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Have you seen their eyes?
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(Oh the children!)
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Hard and wary and street-wise
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(Oh pity the children!)
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There are no children here
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Only old eyes full of hunger
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And hate and hopeless fear
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(But they're children!)
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Abandoned and forsaken
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(Oh the children!)
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Useless human flotsam
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(Oh pity the children!)
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And pity us as well
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For in our childrens' eyes
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We see mirrors of ourselves
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