Child Songtext
von Fifteen

I was watching the baby today
And a question arose for me
A little voice just popped in my head
And it said

What does a child need?
What does a child need?
What does a child need?

Does she need industry?
Does she need a daddy
Who′s gone 40 hours a week?


Does she need TV to tell her she's ugly?
Does she need a school to tell her her
Only value is her future productivity?
Does she need a church to tell her
"Do what we say, cough up the money, or
God is going to torture you for eternity?"
Does she need parents whose hearts are numb
From booze and work and drugs
And TV?
And TV?

What does a child need?
What does a child need?
What does a child need?
What does a child
What does a child
What does a child need?

I was watching Vanessa today
And a question arose for me
A little voice just popped in my head
And it said

What does a child need?
What does a child need?
What does a child need?


Does she need technology
To isolate her from the earth that grants her all her needs?
Does she need a society
Whose only priorities are fear and greed?
Does she need a society
Who judges the quality of its food by its relative toxicity?
Does she need a periphery
Of people she′s never met for a community?
A community?

What does a child need?
What does a child need?
What does a child need?
What does a child
What does a child
What does a child need?

A child needs air that is clean to breathe
A child needs water that is clean to drink
A child needs food that is clean to eat
A child needs parents whose hearts are clean and minds are weak

What does a child
What does a child
What does a child need?