(Help them. Help our children. Help them. Help our children)      Will you let them be? (Help the children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A generation's trying (bombs and crack)   Oh, how we're dying      (Dance, help them)      Will you let them be? (Help the children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A better day is coming (we need love)   To keep our lives going      Life is here and then it's gone   And what seems right can be oh-so wrong   Let's protect, and not molest...a young girl   And help them live to see...this world   Clearly, as it is   And pray for the mother with kids (kids)   Who's lost control, but not her soul   Many kids will die before they're 20 years old      Will you let them be? (Help our children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A generation's trying (bombs and crack)   Oh, how we're dying      (Dance, help them)      Will you let them be? (Help the children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A better day is coming (we need love)   To keep our lives going      Pops (pops) where in the world have you gone   I see Momma (momma) by the telephone   Waiting (waiting) but you don't call   Tears on her face and I see them fall   It hurts (hurts) but will go on    You're just another brother who's left his home   And family (family), yeah we cry,   Momma says she love you and I don't even know why (why why why)      Will you let them be? (Why? Help them. Help our children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A generation's trying (bombs and crack)   Oh, how we're dying      (Dance, help them)      Will you let them be? (Help the children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A better day is coming (we need love)   To keep our lives going      Money and death, the lie, the truth   A dime bag of crack, the end of you   Black and white, a constant fight   Years and years, and day and night   There was a right, I've got to stand   To make a better way for a young black man   In a land (a land) where the people smile   Been holding me back for such a long while (while, while, wow, while)      Will you let them be? (Help our children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A generation's trying (bombs and crack)   Oh, how we're dying      (Dance, help them)      Will you let them be? (Help the children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A better day is coming (we need love)   To keep our lives going      Help them, will you let them be?   Children (children) don't be fooled   And learn about the way that man was ruled   This country (country) where we live   And read about the sixties and what they did   So that we (we) won't forget   And love one another and give respect   When I see (see) a man who's old   A woman who's grey, it touches my soul   Because I know (know) they paved the way   So we could be here and live this way   There was a time (time) not long ago   When in the-front-of-the-bus into the back I had to go   It appears (it appears) that things have changed   Maybe it's in the method but it's still the same game (game, game, game, game, game, game)      Will you let them be? (Help our children)   Will you help the children live to see... (Help the children)   A generation's trying (bombs and crack)   Oh, how we're dying      (Dance, help them)      WILL YOU LET THEM BE?!?!?!