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'70: They're Killing Children Over There

by The Magnetic Fields

on 50 Song Memoir (2017)

So we went to see the Jefferson Airplane
-Odetta was the opening act-
When Grace Slick was young and angry
She said, my fellow Freaks, it's a fact:

They're killing children over there
They're killing children over there
I know we're not supposed to care
But they're still killing children over there

Back then I was even younger than Grace Slick
Even for my age I was small
I thought she meant a massacre
Was taking place inside that hall

She said:
They're killing children over there
They're killing children over there
I know we're not supposed to care
But they're still killing children over there

Now that everyone is fat and complacent
I haven't heard a protest in years
We just keep paying our taxes
The taxes keep turning the gears

They're killing children over there
They're killing children over there
I know we're not supposed to care
But they're still killing children over there