children

dress up children
it's time to play cops and robbers
let's incarcerate our sons and daughters
and we can call it justice

wake up little children
we don't need the threat of violence
to keep us steppin' in time with
the current status quo

it's just make believe
can you make us believe?
'cause we're all make-believing:

that we are grown ups, we are lovers
we are kings and we are martyrs
but what we are are just older children in grown up costumes (make believing)


dress up children
it's time to play muslims and christians
let's polarize and kill each other
and we can call it God vs. Allah

wake up little children
the only "god" who'd destroy his own creation
is our brother over in the sandbox
building castles and driving tanks right through them

it's just make believe...

wake up children
take off your masks of differing positions
try trading with the nearest boy or girl
and while they're off : pause : look round at the world

it's just make believe...