Lyrics David Byrne

David Byrne

Don't Want to Be Part of Your World

Little girls go float upstream

Some a' them never comin' back

We are powerless to stop them

As they vanish from our sight

Little boys dig tunnels

Into the ground they go

Hundreds of them, disappear

Little soldiers on patrol

Singing

Don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

And we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

Underneath the floorboards

In between the walls

Ev'rywhere there's filled with children

Say good-bye to boys and girls

"We promise to be better"

Said the folks at home

"But it really doesn't matter"

Said their daughters and their sons

Singing

Don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

And we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

And we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

And we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

Free from greed and hunger

Free from hate and war

Thousands of them altogether

We are here and

There they are

Singing

Don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

And we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

And we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

No we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

No we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

No we don't want

Don't want

Don't want to be part of your world

No we don't ...