Page type: lyric reference
Artist: John Lees
Canonical path: /john-lees/child-of-the-universe
Related lyric paths: 6
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Child Of The Universe
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Child Of The Universe
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I'm a child of South Africa
I'm a child of Vietnam
I'm a child of Northern Ireland
I'm a small boy with blood on his hands
Yes I'm a child of the universe
Yes I'm a child of the universe
You can see me on the TV every night
Always there to join in someone else's fight
I didn't ask to be born and I don't ask to die
I'm an endless dream, a gene machine
That cannot reason why
Yes I'm a child of the universe
Yes I'm a child of the universe
You can see me on the TV every day
I'm the child next door three thousand miles away
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John Lees performs "Child Of The Universe", and this lyric page sits inside the John Lees catalog on LyroVerse.
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