{"id":204,"date":"1994-05-12T20:54:24","date_gmt":"1994-05-12T20:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonderfuldarkness.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2014-01-20T01:47:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T01:47:36","slug":"the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonderfuldarkness.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"The Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Children in the streets playing with toy machine-guns<br \/>\nInnocent minds thinking of destruction<br \/>\nChildren in the streets killing each-other with fake blood<br \/>\nInnocent minds against innocent minds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hand-grenades and razor blades<br \/>\nDeath seems so far away<br \/>\nKilling toys for little boys<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the price we&#8217;ll have to pay?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Children in the streets turning war into a game<br \/>\nSee the hate in their innocent eyes<br \/>\nChildren in the streets life and death is all the same<br \/>\nTo their innocent little lives<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tommy-guns seem like so much fun<br \/>\nWhen death is so far away<br \/>\nBlood and gore you can buy in a store<br \/>\nNow life is the price we&#8217;ll pay<br \/>\nTo understand the destructive man<br \/>\nI know a child you should meet<br \/>\nTo understand death in demand<br \/>\nJust watch the children in the street<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a9 Daniel E. 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