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Child Soldiers

Lead poppin Heart stoppin No option Either way by the time they're 18 they'll have no oxygen No sympathy don't box slaughtered children How can see a child murdered and no chills send They're reckless approach is militant Layin bombs settin off missiles Just shootin no attempt to hit foes Just infantry shock troops Kids from 5-17 looked at as men not youth Pop at other kids some never reach their teens Stationed at sentries Stripped from families no identity Happens in hundreds of nations Fight wars and your family might be free of their depredations Sunrise to sundown General scandalous won't notify his mother when her son down So when will we open our eyes and realize this happens now Maybe it spreads to America and your son pops the first round

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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