Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Taking Your Life In Your Hands, artist - John Cale.
Date of issue: 21.01.2016
Song language: English
Taking Your Life In Your Hands |
The children are all leaving school today |
Mama said, don’t worry, I’ll be back one day |
The blue men in uniform smiled and waved goodbye |
She was hiding those tears in her eyes |
Roll up the history books, burn the chairs |
Set fire to anything, set fire to the air |
They’re hiding (riding?) to begin and running at the end |
'Cause mama said, you take your life in your hands |
Taking your life, your life in your hands |
But don’t take your life in your hands like I did |
I don’t feel so bad, and always look forward with hope |
Forward and hope that the children will always be there |
Cancel the day, cancel the night |
Cancel the day, cancel the night |
'Cause who could be watching when she steals and runs away |
Full of hysterical laughter, and say |
Mama, mama |
I’ve left school today |
I hope I get to see you in that funny school far away |
But those gentlemen in blue, and those in grey |
Say I’ll never, never see mama again |
'Cause she took those lives in her hands |
Yes, she took all those lives in her hands |
Yes, she took all those lives in her hands |
But let me wonder, what was there left in those hands? |