| Once Upon A Time... |
| Once upon a time Children didn't live in fear They didn't die for hunger They didn't shed a tear |
| They played stickball in the streets They were always safe at home They didn't have to be afraid They were never left alone |
| They were not killed before their birth Or shaken to their death They did not die before a chance To take a single breath |
| No one ever hit them Or called them a mistake No one screamed in the room next door As they lay in bed, awake |
| They didn't take their guns to school And take each other's lives They didn't have to fight alone Or struggle to survive |
| They didn't run away from home Away from all their pain And when they took their own lives They didn't die in vain |
| They all believed in fairy tales That some day would come true If your search your own forgotten past I think you believed them too |
| I beg you, please remember What has happened is a crime Because children were still innocent Once upon a time |
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