Taking Your Life In Your Hands Lyrics - M:fans - John Cale

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 hiding (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 

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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 gentlemen in blue, and those in grey 

Say I'll never, never see mama again 

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'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?