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Saturday, 21 August 2021

Child - Didier Marouani

Child,
Forget your lonely fathers,
Beguiled
Not able to look farther,
Than they should, than they could.
 
Lost,
Inside a maze of nations,
Tossed
In a haze of degradation.
 
You can laugh at the things that they said,
They will never return from the dead,
You can better the lives that they led
With brains of computers instead
Of human minds, a waste of time.
 
Your minds
Are young enough to remould,
You'll find
It's less painful than to grow old,
Do as you're told
We'll take control
 
Child, child,
You'll be so well directed,
Don't cry, don't cry.
Just obey or be rejected.
 
There will be no one on earth to rebel
And a rebel would only live hell,
When you know that we only mean well,
When you know why your fathers fell,
Time takes its toll, we'll take control.
 
We'll take control.

We don't wanna become
Somebody's property,
We don't wanna give up
On our liberty,
No laser eyes on our walls
Just because we are small.

We don't wanna become
Just numbers on a list,
We don't wanna be judged
By any scientist,
No programmation at all
Just because we are small.
 
We don't wanna become
Somebody's property,
We don't wanna give up
On our liberty,
No laser eyes on our walls
Just because we are small.
 
We don't wanna become
Just numbers on a list,
We don't wanna be judged
By any scientist,
No programmation at all
Just because we are small.
 
We don't wanna become
Somebody's property,
We don't wanna give up
On our liberty,
No laser eyes on our walls
Just because we are small...

Didier Marouani (born 1953) Monaco

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