Feed the Children [German translation]

Have you seen the children

who disturb our paradise?,

staring from the TV

with empty dying eyes;

no trace of anger

at the betrayal of the trust

that left them to die like starving dogs

in the famine's bitter dust.

But if you close your ears,

you won’t hear them cryin’.

If you close your eyes,

you won’t see them dyin’.

And if you close your mind,

your heart won’t condemn.

If the future’s born with every birth,

tell me, how much is a child’s life worth?

We must feed the children of the earth,

or the future dies with them.

And have you seen the madmen

who strut the world’s stage?,

threatening our destruction

as they prance and preen and rage,

rattling nuclear sabres

as humanity holds its breath,

feeding on fear and bigotry

while the children starve to death.

But if you close your ears,

you won’t hear them cryin’.

If you close your eyes,

you won’t see them dyin’.

And if you close your mind,

your heart won’t condemn.

If the future’s born with every birth,

tell me, how much is a child’s life worth?

We must feed the children of the earth,

or the future dies with them.

But if you close your ears,

you won’t hear them cryin’.

If you close your eyes,

you won’t see them dyin’.

And if you close your mind,

your heart won’t condemn.

If the future’s born with every birth,

tell me, how much is a child’s life worth?

We must feed the children of the earth,

or the future dies with them.