We spend all our lives running away So far away from here What we see is all we get When we close out minds from all we know is there When you live in a box-tight world You won't know what you have until What you have been told And the children, don't you know why? Obedience goes without question And the children, seen and not heard Will not be silent forever 'Cause we are, you know we are the children Suddenly it's happening your hypocrisy Your thought have become dead to me And bullets hit me just the way I am But only if I teach, if I teach Slow your crying, break me down So you can build me up To what you say fit What you say fit And the children, don't you know why? Obedience goes without question And the children, seen and not heard Will not be silent forever 'Cause we are, we are the children I speak for my generation saying We will not go quietly into your pounds We will not be swallowed by the crowds We will not live by the lines you've drawn up for us, we will draw our own Because we are the children The children, don't you know why? Obedience goes without question The children, seen and not heard Will not be silent forever 'Cause we are, we are the children Tell us why Obedience goes without question And the children, seen and not heard (seen and not heard) Will not be silent forever 'Cause we are, we are the children