What About The Children

What about the children

Playin' in the streets

Dreaming of that good life

No shoes on their feet?

Where is their mama, where is their daddy?

They need some badly

We all agree, yeah

We can all agree, yeah, huh

It doesn't matter when life is shattered

To honest people like you, yeah

Honest people like you, yeah

Mm, what about that good girl

Workin' on the street

Giving up that good, good

So her babies can eat?

Tell me, what would you do if you were in her shoes?

It wasn't her dream, we all agree

Yes, we all agree, yeah

Ah, it really doesn't matter when life is shattered

To honest people like you, yeah

Honest people like you, yeah

(You know what we're talkin' about)

What about the children?

Life ain't what it seems

What about the children?

All their broken dreams

Everyday's a struggle

Life just not a dream

No one gives a damn (come on)

Makes a mother scream, oh-oh, yeah, yeah-yeah

Make your woman scream

What about that good man

Locked up from the streets

Trying to make a dollar

To put shoes on his baby's feet, now?

Their mama's working from time to service

They need somebody, we all agree now, yeah

We can all agree, yeah, yeah

Well, it doesn't matter when life is shattered

To honest people like you

Honest people like you, yeah, oh

(What about the children?)

What about them babies?

What about the children?

What about the little, don't somebody care?

(What about the children?)

Why are you so heartless?

Why do you not care? (Why don't you've children?)

Don't you love the babies?

(What about the children?)

What about the babies?

What about the homeless?

What about the stabbing?

(What about the children?)

Why are you so heartless?

Why do you not care?

If you want the children

You have got to care

(What about the children?)

I can't take it no more, ooh

(What about the children?)

We not playin', y'all