Build Jobs For All Our People
Your children can't find work
they wander the streets
form up as groups
those groups become gangs
people introduce drugs
if you get a child hooked on drugs
you have a customer
for the rest of their live's
teenagers the years
where we make mistakes
the years where we get addicted
smoking drinking drugs
teenagers make the decisions
that we as adults live with
for the rest of our lives
yet give a child a job
and the road is vastly different
give a child a job
they get married start a family
save for their home
Children fight, to prove themselves
a child lost, in a fountain, of confusion
ready to prove themselves a man
yet we ignore their needs
to many lives are lost
trying to find the inner man
trying to cope
with the broken hearts of love
in the wild the male stag
fights to prove he's come of age
fights to prove his right to mate
we think ourselves above
yet nature still holds sway
the birth of life the summer stage
we but actors in life plays
the male stag has come of age
I remember my youth
when we as a group of four
planed to defend ourselves at a dance
parking the car blocks away
who would stand and who would leave
each to head in different directions
only to find the dance had been shut down
to much violence in the town
In my teenage years
I started smoking
enjoyed a drink
suffered pain lost love complete
Teenagers the time
where mum and dad
are no longer the gods of advice
as we develop the adult mind
start to believe that we know better
remember the arguments
all my friends will be there
yet how much more we have learned
How do we protect our youth
if we leave them roaming the streets
we talk about abuse
yet not having work
not having a career
is the greatest mistake
help get the youth off our streets
build jobs for all our people
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