Song for Raging Children
copyright ©2001 by Blind Lemming Chiffon
tune: "Songs To Aging Children" by Joni Mitchell
One line borrowed from Dylan Thomas

 
Life just starts, and then it's over
Like a raven taking flight.
Don't you think it's time to rage
Against the dying of the light?

Songs to raging children come.
Sing us one.

Science cures us of diseases.
Stops the aging process cold.
Death itself is slowly dying.
Getting old is getting old.

Songs to raging children come,
Deaf and dumb.

There are some who know they think,
But how can they think they know?
To a life that isn't living,
Please count me as one opposed.

Songs to raging children come.
Cold and numb.

Store our thoughts in your computer.
Never let them ask you why.
Download us into clone bodies.
We will never have to die.

Songs to raging children come,
Like this one.