While Your Child Is Sleeping
Composed by Suzy McCall
Performed by Lisa O'Kane
Bass by Rick Hinkle
Produced by Audiocam Music
Did you know that on a city block in a place like Manila or Bangkok
There are hundreds of children up for sale
For sex with a stranger sent from hell
To steal another precious life away
And then disappear in the light of day
Have you heard about the children making your clothes
Toys for your babies that's how it goes
In a place like Honduras or Mexico
Where nobody cares what a poor child knows
There isn't any money left for school
Just work to eat another day
Chorus:
While your child is sleeping safe in his room
A small girl is crying, "Please leave me alone"
An there's a frightened group of children a long way from home
Going who knows where just praying
"God help us, we're all alone, we're all alone."
Has anybody told you 'bout the narco ring
How the little ones are used for deliveries
And they keep 'em till they die from sniffing gasoline
Another child murder goes unseen
But what does he matter, that raggedy boy
That filthy little girl
And there are millions of orphans in Africa
From the wars and the AIDS and the idle shrug
Of so many Christians with so little love
For the ones whom Jesus asked to come
The children of the world crying, "Look at me,
Oh, please can't you see?"
Chorus
