Children to Killers

I think you were all beautiful babies

Not that long just the end of the 80s

Did no one love you or make you feel safe

As you grew up on that council estate

When you fell off a wall or had to go to big school

Did you look around for love but find nothing at all

Did ya dads never say sort your life out

Come here son let me show you the way

Did you learn it from rap song about violence

Then no wonder you are all here today

What you did to that boy was the wrong thing

Its not right you gone kill that young man

You chased down the street and then cornered

You kick him and stab him and stab him and kick him and stab him and stab him and stab him

Then through a heart made of gold

you stab him six more

As he lay there all bleeding and dying any chance of a life almost gone

Did you look in his eyes when he shouted

Please mate I aint done nothing wrong

Something changed you from children to killers

Now your freedoms no longer a must

The police they did set out to catch you

And your case

Well it didn't make bust

Do you still feel like you're a big man

When you are sitting alone in your cell

Or do you feel like you did as a small boy

Frightened and lonely as hell