Albert Hammond - Somebodys Child

Chaos parades the city streets
Permanent carnival
Mothers protect their families
Inside apartment walls

Electric heaven is looking down
There's no one wearing a thorny crown

In the new world life is cheap
In the new world lies are deep
In the new world people forget
When the bullets are flying wild
Everybody's somebody's child
Everybody's somebody's child

Floodwaters climb the burning shore
The movie star wrings her hands
Sitting aboard her private yacht
Sailing away from land

At the poker table they serve champagne
There ain't no shelter now from the rain

In the new world life is cheap
In the new world lies are deep
In the new world people forget
When the bullets are flying wild
Everybody's somebody's child
Everybody's somebody's child

Frozen faces in a photograph
Sent at the speed of light
Looking away, a lonely girl
Turns out her bedroom light

She's barricaded by bags of pills
It's war that's raging where peace signs kill

In the new world young girls cry
In the new world young girls die
In the new world we all forget
Once the cause of the death is filed
Everybody's somebody's child
Everybody's somebody's child
Everybody's somebody's child