Music & Lyrix: Pik

Children's drawings from Terezin
Depictin' the cruel reality
Which surrounded them all the day

Terezin buildings
And crowded barracks
Terezin guards
The ill, deportations, funerals and executions

Refrain: Children's drawings
They are warnin'

Children's drawings are warnin'
Today's and future generations
Against the threat of a new war
And they appeal for the fight against fascism
Threatenin' the future of mankind

15.000 children
Slaughtered in camps of extermination
Only a few saw the liberation

Refrain

A couple of years ago when I was travelling in Czechoslovakia I visited a museum in Prague that made a very deep impression on me. CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS is the reflexion of it, and so you will understand that this song goes very close to my heart. In the museum, graphical and literary works by the hands of children of the concentrationcamp of Terezin are exposed. This exposition is dedicated to all innocent children, murdered by the nazis during World War II in concentration- and extermination-camps. For indeed, people don't always dwell on the fact that a great number of children were killed by the nazis too. But let me tell you something about that specific camp in Terezin.

Terezin is situated about 60 km. north of Prague, and is only one of the places, although it's the biggest of that kind in that area, where thousands of children were kept prisoner, next to adult prisoners. Between November '41 and May '45 (the camp is liberated on the 8th of May by the Soviet army) there have been a total of 140,000 prisoners. In the beginning they were mostly Jewish citizens of Czechoslovakia, later on the nazis brought in also people from Germany, Austria and still other European countries. The amount of people who actually died in Terezin itself is 35,000, others were deported to other camps, mostly in occupied Poland, where most of them died too. The exact number of children who were deported to Terezin, is not known, but there were about 15,000, from whom only a hundred returned to their homes after the war. None of them was younger than fourteen ...

In the beginning the children were allowed to be together with the adults, that is to say women and men were separated, and the children stayed with their mother, while boys older than twelve were placed with their father. As in the summer of '42 all the original inhabitants of Terezin were driven out of the city, the prisoners could occupy a part of the town, and the children too got places of their own. These were divided in two categories, namely for children younger than ten, and for children between ten and fifteen. These "homes" were mostly leaded by progressive and dedicated teachers and pedagogues, imprisoned there too of course. Although it was forbidden by the nazis, in secret the children received lessons.

So there were also a lot of cultural activities like appearances, recitals, theatre, puppet-shows, and all this was organized and played by people who had a whole day of work on their back. Also the children participated in the performances, but they wrote poems too and made drawings, and even published in secret magazines. The most important was VEDEM (in English: We lead), which amongst others contained poems, prosaic work, articles about Terezin, translated world literature (mostly the Russian). The magazine appeared once a week, the first was published on the 18th of December '42, the last in the autumn of '44, when the deportation to Auschwitz started. This magazine was published by a "home" in which about a hundred boys were kept prisoner; only eleven of them returned ...

The exposition in the museum is thus about the graphical and literary creations of those children, of whom the eldest also had to work. Although education was forbidden, drawing was permitted and so almost everyone drew. In this way a collection of 4,000 drawings has been left: the hallucinating inheritance to our world of these innocent children, who would be adults now ... Though they were already drawing from in the beginning, the eldest drawings kept only date back from '43, most of them from '44, but only till September, because during September and October '44, the greater part of the children were deported to Auschwitz, where they died.

The drawings contain two themes, namely the typical children's themes, and reflexions from the concentration camp. The first theme deals with the lost and happy years of childhood, toys, plates full of food, their lost homes and city, meadows full of flowers, motives from fairy-tales ... The second theme then is about the sheds, the beds made of wooden shelves, three above one another, the guards, hospitals, transports, funerals, executions, ...

If you are lucky to be in Prague once, you sure have to visit this museum, you will keep a remarkable remaining impression about it. The museum is near the famous jewish cimetary and the (permanent) exposition is called CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS FROM THE CONCENTRATION CAMP OF TEREZIN. I copied some of the texts that were put next to the drawings on the spot (including the present linguistic errors), and the words for CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS come in fact integrally from those notes, as you can notice yourself:

- "The exact number of the children who were imprisoned in the concentration camp of Terezin cannot be already found out. They were about 15,000. In the years 1942-1944 most of them were deported from Terezin to other camps of extermination, where they were slaughtered by the Nazis. Only a few of them survived to see the liberation."
- "Children's drawings representing the motifs from the Terezin concentration camp, mostly simple drawings in pencil, are the most tragic part of the whole set. They depict the cruel reality which surrounded the children all the day. Terezin buildings, crowded barracks and plank beds always three above one another, Terezin guards, the ill, deportations, funerals, executions, ... ."
- "The concentration camp of Terezin was liberated by the Soviet Army on May 8, 1945. The Soviet Army brought freedom to the rest of the prisoners and prevented the Nazis from other crimes. Though most children didn't live to see the longed-for liberation, their artistic and literary legacy was preserved and it warns today's and future generation against the threat of a new war and appeals for the fight against all forms of Fascism threatening the peaceful future of mankind."

Music: Pik / Lyrix: Jenz - Pik

Moneymaker, you destroy lots of food
Because the marketprice should be good
While millions are dyin' of hunger
They can't take it any longer

Thanx to them you have welfare
But about their misery you don't care
All you think about is exploitation
You don't give a fuck for starvation

Refrain: Moneymaker, give them a chance to survive
Moneymaker, they too wanna lead a life

Don't say you don't know
Don't neglect it and don't say no
All that counts for you is profit
About them you don't give a shit

They live in dirty slums
But the west, they let them trudge
Crimes only for the pursuit of gain
But the third world is livin' in vain

For everyone his daily bread
But Ethiopia is at the point of death
Words of comfort are always prepared
But the comin' aid is always too late

Refrain

Music & Lyrix: Pik

Religion made me ready
For heaven
But not for society
Not for society

So I'm still wild

Refrain: They didn't make me ready for society
Despite their god and their humanity

So I'm still wild

My parents brought me up
For the family
But not for society
Not for society

So I'm still wild

Refrain: They didn't make me ready for society
Despite their preaches and their good intentions

So I'm still wild

School made me ready
For university
But not for society
Not for society

So I'm still wild

Refrain: They didn't make me ready for society
Despite their teachers and their shit

So I'm still wild

These lyrix are based on only one sentence of a book I read a long time ago, namely "The son of a servant", the first part of a fourfold autobiography by the Swedish author August Strindberg (1849-1912). That sentence reads "Religion had spoiled him by preparing him for heaven and not for earth, his family had ruined him by bringing him up for family life and not for society, and school had matured him for university and not for life". You can see that the lyrix for this song in fact only consist of this one sentence.

August Strindberg was a kind of a devil-does-it-all like amanuensis (laboratory assistant), explorer, journalist, prompter, would-be painter, and thus also a writer, but not only from stories and novels, but also from plays, historical works, apologies (defenses), poetry and diaries. He didn't only write in his native tongue Swedish, but also in French and German. In between he still had the time to get married three times and his marriages were on their turn also characterized by variety: the first one was a Finnish-Swedish girl (which he first had tricked out from her husband), then an Austrian beauty and last but not least a woman from Norway, whom he however divorced too. Strindberg was not only a renovator in about every literary style he practised, he also revolted against the liberalism and the cultural establishment of his time, especially his novel "Black Flags" caused an enormous scandal, as well as his collection "Marriage Stories", a subject of which he must have known a lot indeed. These stories were considered to be blasphemy.

Music: Pik / Lyrix: Jenz

Cyril was a rolling stone
He used to wear his hair long
Cyril was a hippie
And from time to time he smoked a stickie

Refrain: Cyril was a rolling stone

He drunk whisky and smoked a Havanna cigar
And tried to play the blues on his second hand guitar
He wore some flowers in his hair
And reached his two fingers in the air

Refrain

His mother didn't like his dirty jeans
Peace and freedom were his dreams
Then they all were sisters and brothers
They would change the world and care for the others

Refrain

But then he reached the age of 25
He had a fine job and a sexy wife
He forgot the ideals he had before
Well, Cyril he wasn't a rolling stone anymore

Refrain

Music: Pik / Lyrix: Jenz

He has a head like a blown-up frog
And a face like Brigadeer Dog

Refrain: Big Gol is watchin' you
Big Gol has nothin' else to do

Peace and freedom with Mr. Big Gol
'Cause he has everythin' under control
And you're always escorted by a police patrol

Refrain

A combi on every corner of the street
To watch you from your head to your feet
To watch you from your head to your feet

Refrain

Big Gol wants to know
What you're sayin' on the phone
Big Gol wants to give you
The feelin' you're never alone

Big Gol is the chief
Of the state security
Big Gol wants to finish
With all your privacy

Even on gigs it has become unsafe
BOB is watching you how you behave
They drink and they dance just like you
But it's only a cover for watchin' you

Music: Pik - Jenz / Lyrix: Pik

In 1964
Riots in Stanleytown
6000 rebels
And 2000 hostages

Belgium thinks it's time
To beat the black down
540 paratroopers
For a humane action

Piles of munition
Against the enemy
But shoot only
In case of danger

Refrain 1: Shootin' and killin' just for fun
On women and children on the run
Dragon rouge, Dragon rouge
Dragon rouge, Dragon rouge

And they killed
And they killed
Women and children
Unweaponed

And they shoot everybody down !

Refrain 2: Thousands of dead niggers in the streets
Killed by Belgian beasts
That was Dragon Rouge
That was Dragon Rouge

57 hostages killed
3 paratroopers shot to death
Thousands of dead niggers in the streets
Killed by Belgian beasts

Refrain 1

Refrain 2

Refrain 1

My attention for this indelicate case was for the first time attracted while reading a postscript at the book GANGREEN II (1972) from the Flemish author and ex-colonial soldier Jef Geeraerts (other postscripts in the same book talk about what happened in 1944 in Oradour-sur-Glane in France and about the events in '68 in My Lai). In November 1989 we had the twenty-fifth commemoration of this Belgian intervention in Kongo. It was prooved again that indeed not yet everything has come to light in this affair. For the people amongst you who aren't Belgian: Kongo was from 1885 till 1908 the personal property of king Leopold II, then became a Belgian colony, and became independent in 1960. What's the point now: DRAGON ROUGE (Red Dragon in English) was the codename for an action of Belgian paratroopers on the 24th of November 1964, a so-called humanitarian action (a word that's used again in October 1990 during the action of 500 paratroopers in Rwanda and in September 1991 again for an action in Zaïre) to free white hostages who were kept prisoner by the black rebels in Stanleycity (now Kisangani). A few days later about the same thing happened in the small city Paulis, the raid was called Black Dragon there. The rebels called themselves Simba-rebels, Simba is also the name of a famous beer of Zaïre !

The official version of the facts. In the morning of that 24th of November the Minister of Defence of that time P.W. Segers announces in a message of the government that 540 Belgian paratroopers have been transported to Stanleycity by American soldiers, and have been dropped there. In fact they had already left on the 20th of November for the British base Ascension in the Atlantic Ocean, for a so-called secret NATO-training, as Spaak, Minister of Foreign Affairs at that time, announced then. On the 22th of November the paratroopers were then transported to a Belgian base in Kamina. It's an action in agreement with the government of Kongo (under leadership of President Tsjombé), against whom about 6,000 rebels, disciples of Gbenyé (successor of Loemoemba), have rebelled. Those rebels have made about 2,000 prisoners of war or hostages, and the mission of the Belgians is to liberate them. The commander of the parachute troops is lieutenant-colonel Laurent. During the action, three soldiers are killed (one parachutist in Stanleycity, one in Paulis, and a soldier who's been shot out of a tree). On 1st December everybody is back on the military airfield of Melsbroek. The king congratulates the men, who receive distinctions and give a triumphal parade in Brussels. They don't waste a lot of words, however, about what happened.

The real story. While the 11th company blockaded the airport, the 13th company hits the road to clear the city where the rebels are. Therefore they were provided with an unbelievable amount of ammunition. They reckoned with about 50 to 60 dead men during the action beforehand. Looking back, this calculation was a bit of an underestimation: on the way from the airport to the city the Belgian paratroopers were supposed to control if there were rebels hidden in the houses, but instead of doing that they shot on everything that moved. On the way from the airport to the city they left behind piles of corpses everywhere. There was no enemy fire from the houses, you could control them rather easily by taking a look through the windows which were not blinded, but the Belgians simply threw handgrenates through them, so the corpses were sticking up to the ceiling. A lot of unarmed Kongolian civilians - men, women and children - were shot during the cleaning actions, they also made prisoners, who then were delivered to the mercenaries who shot them ... The Belgian troopers namely only bore the brunt of the fight for the white mercenaries and the National army of Kongo who followed them. The total amount of dead rebels was at least 4,000, who killed on their turn 57 white hostages. The rebels had taken resort to the taking of hostages because they thought that the American planes then wouldn't dare to bomb the city (thus about the same as what Hoessein thought with his "human shields").

That's what I came to know about this case, annexed you'll find a Flemish newspaper article however, in which the facts and numbers are mentioned a bit differently.

In 1977 the same rebels attack the country again (starting from Angola and Zambia) that has been called Zaïre since the 1st of November 1971. In May 1978 the president (since 1965 yet Moboetoe) calls Belgium and France for help. The result of this is the operation Red Beans. In the night of the 17th - 18th of May Belgian and French paratroopers (of the foreign legion) launch an attack by surprise in Kolwezi. The soldiers (with about 1,750 Belgians) can evacuate then over 2,000 whites.

Music: Pik - Jenz / Lyrix: Jenz

Sittin' in a resthome
Lookin' through the window at the graveyard
They say it's the best for you
But in fact you're feelin' lonely and blue

Every day looks the same to you
You're bored and you don't know what to do
People consider you written off
You feel deserted and that must be tough

Refrain: It's your lust for life you lose
You're sufferin' from the ol' man blues

Your name replaced by the number of your room
Your family wishes you to die soon
Like vultures they're waitin' to grab your money
For your life it isn't always sunny

Refrain

You're singin' the ol' man blues

Music: Pik - Jenz / Lyrix: Pik - The bible

Jezus was a man who was born in Jerusalem
He went to a marriage where they all got drunk
Then they had too much water and a lack of wine
So Jezus changed the water into wine

Refrain: The man who taught his people to drink: Jezus !!
The man who taught his people to get drunk: Jezus !!
The man who changed the water into wine: Jezus !!

But Jezus did still other things than these ones
A blind man, he made him let him see again
And a dead man, he made him let him live again
So they could see and both get drunk again

Refrain

But now we're lookin'
For a new messiah
A man who can change
Water into beer

'Cause Jezus couldn't change the water into beer
The only mistake he made in his whole wild life
But that doesn't mean we don't like Jezus at all
So let's clink together and drink to the health of Jezus

Refrain

In connection with these lyrics maybe it's not totally uninteresting to call to your attention a book that appeared in 1986 and that contains a very remarkable approach of Jezus, as a historical person. The author of the book is Dr. H. Somers, and it's titled "Jezus, the Messiah" with as a subtitle "Was christianity a mistake ?". Somers is not the first the best word-mouger, but he's a doctor in philosophy and philology, in theology, in applied psychology, he has an academic degree in thomistic philosophy (the theory of Thomas of Aquino (1225-1274, canonized in 1323), the most famous medieval philosopher in theology and philosophy), and has specialized himself in psychopathology (a science that studies the nature, the causes, the development and the results of psychologic clinical pictures). Indeed, not the first the best as I said. In the book he conducts a psychopathological research on the biblical texts. These texts were already the subject of diverse studies, but a psychopathological study was still naked ground so far. After this study he comes to the for us reassuring conclusion that Jezus was in fact a lunatic. He was an illegitimate child, would have a certain hereditary taint, and a great need of a fatherbond. Somers attributes Jezus the personality structure of a parafreen, where parafreny is a mental disease in which a person develops a fallacy, out of which an entire system is worked out. Often the contents of this fallacy is genetical (in relation with the origin of someone), Jezus calls himself the son of God for example. Besides a parafreen can still adapt easily to his environment. Other elements that confirm Somers' theory: Jezus was under the delusion he had power over the devil, he had hallucinatical crisises, one time followed by a period of anorexia (his fasting time) with also characteristics of zoöpsy (observing wild animals), furthermore he had auditory hallucinations (he heard voices), vestibulary hallucinations (having the feeling you're flying), megalomania, and he identified himself with a well-known personality. I'd like to pursue this last subject. In Jezus' time the most current prophecy was the book of Henoch, that was written about 100 before J.C. Henoch, as to Somers a paranoid schizofrenic, predicts the arrival of a Human Son, and even pretends that it's himself. Jezus was informed about these writings, and he identified himself with this Human Son, which is in fact impossible, cause then they are already two, and he is in contradiction with himself ! Remarkably enough (or maybe just not ...) this book of Henoch doesn't appear in our bible, but in the integral New Testament countless expressions are taken over from it, and Henoch is even explicitly cited.

This book proves in fact that a prophet of our time would end up in a lunatic asylum. I found the book decently scientifically substantiated, Somers also explains his working-method in detail, although sometimes I couldn't strip of the idea that he only used the bible passages which suited his purpose. Also I had sometimes the impression he searched things too far, but who knows, maybe Somers has some trouble with paranoia ... In this book an anti-clerical finds in fact everything he needs to consolidate on a scientifically grounded way his "faith", consequently I can strongly recommend it you.

Music: Pik / Lyrix: Jenz - Pik

Today another dead in South-Africa
A land ruled by a fascist called Pik Botha
Blacks are terrorized by government repression
Whites treat blacks as their possession

Refrain: Blacks aren't wanted in South-Africa
Slaves is what they are for Pik Botha
Whites are rewarded in South-Africa
They get their rewards from Pik Botha

They have to do what they are told
Digging silver and lots of gold
For the whites and their glory
For the whites and their money

In the name of justice, support the ANC

Everyday there's provocation of the police
Everyday violence knows an increase
How much more dead must there be
Before S.-A. can call itself free

Refrain

They have to do what they are told
Diggin' silver and lots of gold
For the whites and their glory
For the whites and their money

In the name of justice, support the ANC

Music: Pik - Jenz / Lyrix: Jenz

It happened to us more than a thousand times
That our life is embittered by some humourless guys
I guess fightin' is the only thing those rambo's can
To prove their sluts they are more a man

Refrain: Baby, we are born to run
Baby, we could have so much fun

Heavies with no brains in their head
They have nails and pins instead
Snobs who wanna prove they are tough
I hope one day their heads'll fall off

Everytime we're on the road
We always are the scapegoat
Somewhere, there's always someone to spoil our fun
I guess we are born to run

Refrain

When are those bastards gonna leave us alone
'Cause we ain't doing nobody wrong
They are the hunters and it's us they chase
I hope one day I can smash their face

Refrain

You know it's gonna last a few more years
So when you throw them bricks, don't you cry no tears

And when you see them tanks go past
You throw your bomb and you run from the blast

Refrain: Ulster, Ulster
There ain't no winner
No, there ain't no winner

And now you're lying in your hospital bed
You can still hear the bullets rushing past your head

No more fun for you ain't no more
You've ended like the rest and now you're dead

Refrain

"ULSTER BOY stood together with the songs I DON'T WANNA and RED LONDON on the first single (Step Forward Records) of SHAM 69, produced by John Cale and released in August 1977. Bass-player Dave Treganna doesn't appear on this single, for the simple reason he wasn't yet a member of the band at that moment."

Refrain: Hey little rich boy
Take a good look at me

I don't need a flash car to take me around
I can get the bus to the other side of town

Refrain

I didn't get no G.C.E.
It makes you think you can't talk to me

Refrain

Why should I let it worry me ?
I'll never believe you're better than me

"HEY LITTLE RICH BOY was brought out together with BORSTAL BREAKOUT in January 1978 as their second single (Polydor), it already appeared in the British Top 40, but all their following singles did it even better in the Top 40 than this one."

So many people inside of me
I must find the one that I wanna be
All my life I've wanted to know
It's my life so I can't let go

Everything we say and do
So many people will laugh at you
All my life I've wanted to know
It's my life so I can't let go

Refrain: It's never too late
To find out who you are

Sometimes I think am I really me ?
Sometimes I think am I really you ?
All my life I've wanted to know
It's my life so I can't let go

Refrain

Violence all around me
Not one of them can tell me
What I can say or do

I don't know where I'm going
But I've got to get there soon

I say you've gotta help me
But they don't wanna know me
I don't know what to do

My mum's gonna go cranky
And me dad'll beat me black and blue

Refrain: They're saying that's life
But I'm taking the blame

When I go to football
I get into trouble
Everywhere's the same

And when I go to work
I'm in trouble again

Refrain

Kids are fighting kids
And no one gives a damn

We're eating a clockwork orange
But I'm spitting out the pips

Refrain

All foreign feet down Oxford Street
Faces from places I've never been
All the shops and restaurants
Ask for money that I haven't got

Refrain: It's just a fake
Make no mistake
A ripoff for me
But a Rolls for them

Tell the kids to get to grips
Don't wanna buy or eat no more
King's Road shoppers make us poor
And time is running out for us

Refrain

Tell the kids to get to grips
Don't wanna buy or eat no more
King's Road shoppers make us poor
And time is running out for us

Refrain

Me dad don't want me coming home late from the disco
Me mum doesn't want me hanging around with the lads
Me brother thinks he looks like John Travolta
And me sister thinks she's Olivia Newton John

Refrain: It's a Sunday morning nightmare
A Sunday morning nightmare
A Sunday morning now

I've been drinking too many pints of lager
I've been getting in too many bleedin' fights
I came home with sick all down me trousers
I've got love bites all over my neck

Refrain

Oo-wee oo-wee oo
Don't do it, they won't let us do it

Don't tell me dad I've just smashed up his car
And don't tell me mum I've put me bird in the club
Tell my brother not to wear my clothes
And tell me sister to get her boyfriend out of me bed

Refrain

Oo-wee oo-wee oo
Don't do it, they won't let us do it

"SUNDAY MORNING NIGHTMARE was their fourth single (Polydor) together with IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED, released in July 1978."

Through the corners of our eyes
We can see them pass us by
Looking at us, but not talking to us

Now we see them talking about us
Whispering lies all around us
Not wanting us to know the truth

Refrain: Tell us the truth
Don't let us down
You're a fool if you do

If only we could get together
Then I know we'd live forever, live forever

Refrain

If only we could get together
Then I know we'd live forever, live forever

Refrain

"In 1979 a live-single appeared with the songs TELL US THE TRUTH, I DON'T WANNA and HERSHAM BOYS which were recorded in February 1978. Furthermore in October 1979 another single appeared, on which YOU'RE A BETTER MAN THAN I and GIVE A DOG A BONE are to be found. Still more singles: TELL THE CHILDREN (March 1980), RIP AND TEAR (August 1987) and OUTSIDE THE WAREHOUSE (February 1988)."

As soon as we are born
We're told what to say and do
But only a friend
Can know the you that's you

So think before
You do what they say
It's your life
So go your own way

Refrain: Questions and answers
Honesty, lies
Yes, no you can't
But you can if you know why

An argument's your statement
To say "Look I'm alive !"
Just doing what you think is right
Will help you to survive

Refrain

There's no one that can tell you
What you can and cannot be
The world was made for all of us
For you and, yes, for me

"This was the seventh single (Polydor) of SHAM, released in March 1979 it reached number eighteen in the Top 40. The single also contained the songs GOTTA SURVIVE and WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS. Their fifth single appeared in 1978 as their 1st anniversary single, and it contained only one song: FANX, SONS OF THE STREET."

I'm sitting in this cell just for something I didn't do
And all I can think of is baby I think of you
But don't worry baby I'm coming back to you

Refrain: There's gonna be a borstal breakout

But now I got the chance I don't care about what I do
When I've done them things I done 'em just for you
But now I'm getting out coming back to you

Refrain

Well now I'm over the wall I'm nearly home
I'm coming through that door coming back to you
Now I'm nearly home nearly back with you

Refrain

"BORSTAL BREAKOUT was released together with HEY LITTLE RICH BOY in 1978 as their second single."

Refrain: Come on, come on
Hurry up Harry, come on
We're going down the pub

Now listen here Harry
If we're going down the pub
You better tell your mum and dad
And finish up your grub
I wish you'd listen to me
No I don't want a cup of tea

Refrain

You keep telling me to grow up
But Harry don't you see
If I tried to act my age
I wouldn't be me
We never do anything
So now's the time to begin

Refrain

You don't have to tell me
That the things I do are wrong
Everything I do in life
Is win, lose, right or wrong
But I think I understand
How to have some fun

Refrain

"This song, together with NO ENTRY, reached as a single number ten in the Top 40, it was their sixth single (Polydor) and it was released in October 1978."

For once in my life I've got something to say
I wanna say it now but now is today
When love has been given so why not enjoy
So let's all grab and let's all enjoy

Refrain: If the kids are united
They will never be divided

Just take a look around you what do you see
Kids with feelings like you and me
Understand him and he'll understand you
For you are him and he is you

Refrain

I don't wanna be rejected
I don't wanna be denied
From the rest of my misfortune
That I've opened up your eyes

Freedom is given speak how you feel
I'm the freedom how do you feel
You can lie to my face but not to my heart
If we stay together it will just be the start

Refrain

"IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED was their fourth single together with SUNDAY MORNING NIGHTMARE, it was brought out in July 1978 and reached number nine in the Top 40. The third (Polydor) appeared in April, that was ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES and THE COCKNEY KIDS ARE INNOCENT, and it reached number twelve in the Top 40."