Lyric discussion by mitigator 

Cover art for O Children lyrics by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Quite Marxist. In other words, the adults love the next generation, but end up screwing it up unintentionally the way they were screwed up. Just hand over your "gun", your rebelious spirit, and let us teach you the secrets we all think we really know but we don't. But in the end, even though we have brainwashed you into believing our ways are right, we can all still ride that same train home to a place where we will all be happy.