Children Will Listen

[00:16.57] How do you say to your child in the night
[00:21.46] Nothing's all black, but then nothing's all white?
[00:25.55] How do you say, it will all be all right
[00:29.63] When you know that it might not be true?
[00:33.45] What do you do?
[00:41.24] Careful the things you say
[00:44.70] Children will listen
[00:48.66] Careful the things you do
[00:51.47] Children will see and learn
[00:59.41] Children may not obey
[01:02.28] But children will listen
[01:06.15] Children will look to you
[01:09.01] For which way to turn
[01:12.53] Learn what to be
[01:16.22] Careful before you say
[01:20.17] "Listen to me"
[01:24.29] Children will listen
[01:33.59] Careful the wish you make
[01:36.69] Wishes are children
[01:40.42] And careful the path they take
[01:43.03] Wishes come true, not free
[01:51.48] Careful the spell you cast
[01:54.05] And not just on children
[01:57.64] Sometimes the spell may last
[02:00.70] Past what you can see
[02:04.29] And turn against you
[02:08.43] So careful the tale you tell
[02:11.79] That is the spell
[02:15.85] Children will listen
[02:21.62] How do you say to a child who's in flight
[02:25.81] Don't slip away and I won't hold so tight?
[02:29.92] What can you say that no matter how slight
[02:33.20] Won't be misunderstood?
[02:37.27] What do you leave to your child when you're dead?
[02:40.95] Only whatever you put in it's head
[02:44.74] Things that your mother and father had said
[02:48.51] Which were left to them too
[02:52.45] Careful what you say
[02:57.40] Children will listen
[03:00.38] Careful you do it too
[03:04.66] Children will see and learn
[03:13.18] Guide them but step away
[03:15.84] Children will glisten
[03:19.88] Tamper with what is true
[03:23.02] And children will turn
[03:26.65] If just to be free
[03:31.26] So careful before you say "Listen to me"
[03:39.11] 'Cause children will listen
[03:50.15] Children will listen
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[04:03.05] Children will listen
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