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How do you say to your child in the night |
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Nothing is all black but then nothing is all white? |
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How do you say it will all be alright |
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When you know that it mightn't be true? |
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What do you do? |
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Careful the things you say |
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Children will listen |
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Careful the things you do |
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Children will see |
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And learnChildren may not obey |
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But children will listen |
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Children will look to you |
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For which way to turn |
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To learn what to be |
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Careful before you say"Listen to me" |
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Children will listen |
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Careful the wish you make |
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Wishes are children |
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Careful the path they take |
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Wishes come true |
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Not freeCareful the spell you cast |
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Not just on children |
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Sometimes the spell may last |
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Past what you can see |
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And turn against you |
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Careful the tale you tell |
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That is the spell |
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Children will listen |
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How can you say to a child who's in flight |
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Don't slip away and |
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I won't hold so tight? |
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What can you say that no matter how slight won't be misunderstood? |
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What do you leave to your child when you're dead |
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Only what ever you put in it's head |
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Things that your mother and father had said |
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Which were left to them too |
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Careful what you say |
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Children will listen |
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Careful you do it too |
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Children will see and learn |
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OhGuide them but step away |
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Children will glisten |
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Temper with what is true |
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And children will turn |
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If just to be free |
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Careful before you say"Listen to me" |
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Children will listen |
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Children will listen |
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Children, children will listen |
