What About the Children

What about the children?
How can they play?
No place safe
It's gotta be a better way
People (oh-oh-ay) in the street (yeah, yeah, yeah)
No place to sleep
No food to eat, oh, oh

As I look out the windell, what do I see?
I see poverty
People living in the streets, how could this be?
Whatever happened to humanity, yeah?
Why can't we live in peace and harmony?
It's such a sad reality, it's killing me

What about the children? (Oh, oh, yeah)
How can they play? (Oh, my)
No place safe
It's gotta be a better way (tell me how)
People (talk about the people, yeah) in the street
No place to sleep
No food to eat (oh, well, well, wow) oh, oh

What's the purpose of war?
They keep the rich separate from the poor
It's just a game, and it's a shame, oh, oh
Missing father, he's not in the home
Little girl, which means the child's alone
Here the baby crying through the night
Because the mama's not doing right

What about the children? (What about the children?)
How can they play? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
No place safe (nowhere, nowhere)
It's gotta be a better way (oh my, oh my)
People (what about the people?) in the street
No place to sleep
No food to eat, oh, oh

Well, well, well, well, ah

Oh, oh, hmm, my, my

(What about?) What about the children? (What about the children?)
How can they play? (How can they play?)
No place safe (nowhere seems to be safe)
It's gotta be a better way (I gotta know)
People (tell me 'bout the people dying) in the street (dying in the streets)
No place to sleep (no food to eat)
No food to eat (tell me) oh, oh

(What about?) What about the children? (My babies are dying)
How can they play? ('Cause, I hear them crying)
No place safe (oh, oh, oh)
It's gotta be a better way (oh, yeah, what about?)
People (talk about the people) in the street (they're living in the streets)
No place to sleep (there is no place to sleep)
No food to eat, oh, oh (there is no food)

What about the children?
How can they play? (Oh my, oh my)
No place safe (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
It's gotta be a better way (oh, oh)
People (tell me 'bout the people some money) in the street (earn money)
(Everybody, let's go) no place to sleep (yeah, yeah)
No food to eat (hmm) oh, oh

What about the children? (Let's talk about the children)
How can they play? (We gotta change the world)
No place safe
It's gotta be a better way
People (gotta be a better way, gotta be) in the street