help the children

, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a generation's trying, oh, how we're dying, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a better day is coming, to keep our lives going, life is here and then it's gone, and what seems right can be oh-so wrong, let's protect, and not molest. a young girl, and help them live to see. this world, clearly, as it is, and pray for the mother with kids, who's lost control, but not her soul, many kids will die before they're 20 years old, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a generation's trying, oh, how we're dying, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a better day is coming, to keep our lives going, pops where in the world have you gone, i see momma by the telephone, waiting but you don't call, tears on her face and i see them fall, it hurts but will go on, you're just another brother who's left his home, and family, yeah we cry, momma says she love you and i don't even know why, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a generation's trying, oh, how we're dying, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a better day is coming, to keep our lives going, money and death, the lie, the truth, a dime bag of crack, the end of you, black and white, a constant fight, years and years, and day and night, there was a right, i've got to stand, to make a better way for a young black man, in a land where the people smile, been holding me back for such a long while, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a generation's trying, oh, how we're dying, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a better day is coming, to keep our lives going, help them, will you let them be?, children don't be fooled, and learn about the way that man was ruled, this country where we live, and read about the sixties and what they did, so that we won't forget, and love one another and give respect, when i see a man who's old, a woman who's grey, it touches my soul, because i know they paved the way, so we could be here and live this way, there was a time not long ago, when in the-front-of-the-bus into the back i had to go, it appears that things have changed, maybe it's in the method but it's still the same game, will you let them be?, will you help the children live to see. a generation's trying, oh, how we're dying, will you let them be?!?!?!