This song was written and performed by Tom White. It asks the question "Do we really need to drug up our kids?" And what are we doing to them? Violent video games, a mix of drugs to control them and we wonder why they go off and shoot up schools and theaters. Most of the recent shooters were on legal prescriptions for years.
The children are our only resource at the end of the day.
Do we really know what we are doing?
The Lyrics:
Broken Children
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Every morning, the same old rush.
Brush your teeth, comb your hair, inside we know, they don't have a prayer.
In the evening, they're all latchkey, instead of parents, they watch TV
Do your schoolwork before I get home, then go to bed, so I can drink alone.
Broken Children, on the Streets
Broken Children they never sleep
We pill them up, they don't make a sound
Broken Children, they all fall down
Leave a light on, 'cuz I get scared. Tell me a story like you still cared.
Check the closet, look under the bed, the monsters mostly live in their head.
We drug them up and tie them down, we wait in silence for their big meltdown
You try to sleep, it'll all be clearer, but the one to blame is watching in the mirror
Chorus:
Violent games set the stage, with the pill cocktail that fuels the rage
Just what is real and what's pretend it's all the same in the end.
We seem surprised when they grab real guns, they kill our daughters and kill our sons
We blame the bullets, we blame the shells, but most of all we need to blame ourselves.
Chorus
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