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Lyrics When The Children Cry by White Lion

Little child dry your crying eyes How can I explain the fear you feel inside Cause you were born into this evil world Where man is killing man and no one knows just why What have we become just look what we have done All that we destroyed you must build again

CHORUS When the children cry let them know we tried Cause when the children sing then the new world begins

Little child you must show the way To a better day for all the young Cause you were born for all the world to see That we all can live with love and peace No more presidents and all the wars will end One united world under God

CHORUS

What have we become just look what we have done All that we destroyed you must build again No more presidents and all the wars will end One united world under God

When the children cry let them know we tried When the children fight let them know it ain't right 1

When the children pray let them know the way Cause when the children sing then the new world begins

b. About the song "When the Children Cry" is a song performed by the rock group White Lion. It is the third single and 10th and final track on their 1987 album Pride. The single peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, #7 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and #88 in the UK in early 1989. (Wikipedia .com) White Lion was a pop metal band in the 1980s; and unlike most bands in their genre they recorded songs of social and political issues. "When the Children Cry" is a song about children suffering under a war ridden country. Even in 2008 we can see on YouTube videos of children who suffer in Palestine and Iraq. Songs like "Cry for Freedom" was about apartheid; "Broken Home" was about the effect of divorce on children; "Little Fighter" was about a Greenpeace ship that was destroyed by the French intelligence service; and even their third album cover "Big Game" in 1989 featured a lion's head hidden in tall grass with the White House in the background.
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c. Theme of the song The song tell us war situation by using child as point of view. The song try to build the listener or the reader feeling about how the situation and the feeling when someone in war situation. From that the song try to tell that the children as the new generation that has much more opportunity to change the world the adult must show the children the good way that war is not right and the peaceful world is better.

d. Feeling and emotion The first stanza tells about feeling in war and the hope of the writer about the better world without war.

Little child dry your crying eyes How can I explain the fear you feel inside 2

Cause you were born into this evil world Where man is killing man and no one knows just why What have we become just look what we have done All that we destroyed you must build again What have we become just look what we have done, All that we destroyed you must build again shows that the children as the future generation must fix all the problem that the predecessor have done, the writer gives the big hope to the children to make a better world without war. The writer of the song wants to tell that children is still pure havent had sin, it can be a parameter of live, When the children cry let them know we tried has meaning that people must show the children a good way, children cries when there is a something wrong, from that the adult must do the right thing or showing the children the good way, so that when the children grow up can know which one is right and which one is wrong, right here can be said a world without war. Contrary, Cause when the children sing then the new world begins tells that when the children sing or happy the live is on the good way, no war, no violence.

Little child you must show the way To a better day for all the young Cause you were born for all the world to see That we all can live with love and peace

Part of the this stanza reinforce that the children as the leader, the adult and the people in the future must be showed the right way, must be given a good education so that when they are adult can show the good way, show the better live to the next generation.

No more presidents and all the wars will end One united world under God

This part of stanza tell that the united world that lives in peace, One united world under God under God here can be interpreted as peaceful, the live that respected each other, human live what the God has given to us by his prophet. No more presidents means that there no dictator president that can cause war, this is related to the war that happened in the 80s that most of the war is leaded by the President or leader that has power to do everything by military ways. The song has main power or enforcement on the fourth stanza.

What have we become just look what we have done All that we destroyed you must build again No more presidents and all the wars will end One united world under God This stanza can cover all of the song, What have we become just look what we have done tells about the that day the people have done a bad thing that is war, or generally we can say if we want to judge someone by what he or she has done. In this case the people has done war as the bad thing. All that we destroyed you must build again, showing the writers hope that the children can fix the problem that the adult has made when the children became adult.