Tim Robbins - All My Children Of The Sun lyrics
rate meAll my children of the sun<br />
<br />
The navigator said to the engineer<br />
I think our radio's dead<br />
I can hear but I can't send<br />
And there's bad weather up ahead<br />
<br />
The pilot said to the co-pilot<br />
Our right engine's gone<br />
But if we can make it over these mountains<br />
Perhaps I can set her down<br />
<br />
All my children of the sun<br />
<br />
Five hundred miles from nowhere<br />
We belly landed on a river<br />
We bid a quick goodbye<br />
To that ship of silver<br />
<br />
Twenty-five piled out the window<br />
Twenty reached the shore<br />
We turned to see our metal bird<br />
Sink to rise no more<br />
<br />
All my children of the sun<br />
<br />
We found some floating logs<br />
We found some sharp stones<br />
We cut some vines and made a raft<br />
It was our only hope<br />
<br />
The navigator said he thought there was<br />
A town somewhere downstream<br />
So now each man tried his best<br />
To paddle as a team<br />
<br />
All except one young guy<br />
Who kept arguing with the navigator<br />
He said he'd read about a waterfall<br />
We would come to sooner or later<br />
<br />
At a river's bend he persuaded us<br />
To bring our raft to beach<br />
But a search party found the river smooth<br />
As far as eye could reach<br />
<br />
All my children of the sun<br />
<br />
Once again he persuaded us to stop<br />
We cursed at the delay<br />
Once again we found the river<br />
Flowing on the same old way<br />
<br />
We said, "Shut up your arguing<br />
You give us all a pain<br />
Why don't you pitch in and do your part<br />
Be constructive for a change?"<br />
<br />
All my children of the sun<br />
<br />
Still egghead kept on talking<br />
In the same long winded way<br />
We said, "If you won't paddle<br />
Get the hell out of our way"<br />
<br />
We told him to go sit<br />
Far back at the stern<br />
Then we strained to paddle harder<br />
And then the river made a turn<br />
<br />
All my children of the sun<br />
<br />
One paddler heard sound of tapping<br />
And what he saw, when he did turn<br />
Was egghead with a sharp stone<br />
Cutting the vines that bound the stern<br />
<br />
With a cry of rage the paddler<br />
Leaped up to his feet<br />
He swung his long pole<br />
Knocked egghead into the deep<br />
<br />
But now the logs were splaying out<br />
The raft had come unbound<br />
Like mad we paddled for the shore<br />
Before we all would drown<br />
<br />
All my children of the sun<br />
<br />
A search party went out to find more vines<br />
To tie the raft up tight<br />
In twenty minutes they returned<br />
Their faces pale with fright<br />
<br />
They said a quarter mile down the river<br />
We found a waterfall<br />
It's over a hundred feet in height<br />
It could have killed us all<br />
<br />
All my children of the sun<br />
<br />
And that is why on the banks<br />
Of a far off wilderness stream<br />
Which none of us, none of us<br />
Will ever see again<br />
<br />
There stands a cross for someone<br />
Hardly older than a boy<br />
Who we thought was only<br />
Trying to destroy<br />
<br />
All my children of the sun
