Taking Your Life In Your Hands Lyrics by John Cale

Taking Your Life In Your Hands Lyrics

    The children are all leaving school today
    Mama said, don't worry, i'll be back one day
    The blue men in uniform smiled and waved goodbye
    She was hiding those tears in her eyes

    Roll up the history books, burn the chairs
    Set fire to anything, set fire to the air
    They're hiding [riding?] to begin and running at the end
    'cause mama said, you take your life in your hands

    Taking your life, your life in your hands
    But don't take your life in your hands like i did
    I don't feel so bad, and always look forward with hope
    Forward and hope that the children will always be there

    Cancel the day, cancel the night
    Cancel the day, cancel the night
    'cause who could be watching when she steals and runs away
    Full of hysterical laughter, and say

    Mama, mama
    I've left school today
    I hope i get to see you in that funny school far away
    But those gentlemen in blue, and those in grey
    Say i'll never, never see mama again

    'cause she took those lives in her hands
    Yes, she took all those lives in her hands
    Yes, she took all those lives in her hands
    But let me wonder, what was there left in those hands?

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