Children Lyrics - Singles - The Mavericks

(Raul Malo) 

A child who is raised by an unworthy hand 

Has less of a chance being a man 

Who will try to remember and then understand 

Why a mother would cry 

while a husband lay dead 

Shot down by a gun of a runaway train 

Called life in the fast lane 

it all ends the same 

Well the same children's lives 

they will always regret 

Are the children who never forget 

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A man ends up tired and walking alone 

On a street corner singing for a penny a song 

What he cannot remember was never his own 

That's the answer he gives 

when he speaks of his home 

Well the streets are my life 

I don't know anymore 

Where the children's are junkies 

and the ladies are whores 

Well the same children's lives 

they will always regret 

Are the children who never forget 

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Chorus 

Goodnight, goodnight sweet child 

Why don't you dream with the angels 

to forget for awhile 

To forget of the life 

that's been handed to you 

Where everything's real, 

yet nothing is true 

Well perhaps you can change 

what the cards always read 

For the children who never forget 

For a time they were counting 

you out of this race 

You stood up like a champion 

that had fallen like grace 

Never showing the anguish 

that had covered your face 

You were raped and forgotten 

left to die in disgrace 

Shot down by a gun of a runaway train 

Called life in the fast lane 

it all ends the same 

Well the same children's lives 

they will always regret 

Are the children who never forget 

Repeat chorus twice 

Goodnight, goodnight sweet child 

Why don't you dream with the angels 

to forget for awhile