its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
We poison our hearts
We poison our seas
We burn down the paradise
We're stoppin' good waves
We're losin' our trees
The future looks bright ahead
I don't wonder we'll go under in this river of lies oh oh oh
We're lost in this time we create so fine
The future we already fear
Seems like no way out, seems like there's no doubt
The future looks bright ahead
We're the kids of the century we're lost in our games
No time for the memories we look in the haze
We're the kids of the century it wasn't our fault
Everything's done mum, we fall
Let's keep on crying
But sometimes I don't want to fall
I don't want to fall sometimes I don't want to fall
Every time when you look around things will smile at you
Every time when you turn around you smell the truth
But you run away from the lies you can't say
Don't run away from the lies you can't say
We're the kids of the century we're lost in our games
No time for the memories we look in the haze
We're the kids of the century it wasn't our fault
Everything's done mum, we fall
We're the kids of the century we're lost in our games
No time for the memories we look in the haze
We're the kids of the century it wasn't our fault
Everything's done mum, we fall
Let's keep on crying
But sometimes I don't want to fall
I don't want to fall sometimes I don't want to fall
No, I don't want to fall sometimes I don't want to fall
We poison our seas
We burn down the paradise
We're stoppin' good waves
We're losin' our trees
The future looks bright ahead
I don't wonder we'll go under in this river of lies oh oh oh
We're lost in this time we create so fine
The future we already fear
Seems like no way out, seems like there's no doubt
The future looks bright ahead
We're the kids of the century we're lost in our games
No time for the memories we look in the haze
We're the kids of the century it wasn't our fault
Everything's done mum, we fall
Let's keep on crying
But sometimes I don't want to fall
I don't want to fall sometimes I don't want to fall
Every time when you look around things will smile at you
Every time when you turn around you smell the truth
But you run away from the lies you can't say
Don't run away from the lies you can't say
We're the kids of the century we're lost in our games
No time for the memories we look in the haze
We're the kids of the century it wasn't our fault
Everything's done mum, we fall
We're the kids of the century we're lost in our games
No time for the memories we look in the haze
We're the kids of the century it wasn't our fault
Everything's done mum, we fall
Let's keep on crying
But sometimes I don't want to fall
I don't want to fall sometimes I don't want to fall
No, I don't want to fall sometimes I don't want to fall
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the kids are the people who make thinks wrongs and the games are this things,the century is because the 21 century brings so many problems