John Cale - Taking Your Life In Your Hands lyrics

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 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 gentle men 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?