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Save The Children

from What's Going On by Sean Riddell

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Who really suffers tomorrow for the sins of the father?
The sons and the daughters. Who’s beginning to bother
with fixing the problems that either we’re causing
or letting continue ‘cause it’s cheaper than solving.

It’s deeper than all this, it’s deeper than lyrics.
It’s deep as a foundation—it’s deep in the spirit.
For people to hear it, it comes as a shock
that we turn to religion but we’re running from God.

And the ones at the top, they do what they want
and throw caution to wind to improve on their lot.
They’re building up walls, to hide them at Wall Street.
They’re putting up ceilings, the type that we all meet.

They’re constructing a structure so the under ones under
-stand it’s tough as a buffer, and the younger ones suffer.
The ones up above us run off with the loot.
They brought us the guns, the movies taught us to shoot.


They brought us the drugs; they bought us the jails.
They taught us to buy, and they taught us to sell.
No tortoise and hare in this brand of the vision
where demand is positioned as capitalism.

And the side of supply they decided to hide,
it lowers the low and highers the high.
And hires the high to work for the low
wage in the business dispersing the homes.

This person has no insurance or hope
because the police do work for the goal.
The judges aren’t just; the lawyers aren’t loyal.
They’ll put you away, though you avoided the coil.

They’re destroying the soil, we put gardens in cities
to grow our own food, ‘cause the market is shifty.
The artisan in me better get building
up for the future like Everett Hilden.


Though never appealing, whenever the feeling
to think of yourself comes, remember the children.
My letters revealing my thoughts on my family,
my sister Alana, and all that she can be

if given the right opportunities in
her living her life which is soon to begin.
And whether or not I’m next to her side
each step in her life, I’m not best as a guide.

But who gets to decide how, other than her,
she uncovers and learns and discovers the world.
Let’s recover the earth to give to the children.
Less death and destruction; more living and building.

It isn’t until then we have something to offer
as mothers and fathers to our sons and our daughters.
If we can muster conviction. We must con
-sider the younger who really will suffer
tomorrow.

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from What's Going On, released January 8, 2009

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