Children in Pieces

Children in pieces

in Irish industrial schools

Nuns cold mothers

and the christian brothers

kick the shit out of very frightened children

Judges and priests and police and cardinals

they look the other way

When the weekend comes

they'll make use of those

Children in pieces

in Irish industrial schools

Nuns cold mothers

and the christian brothers

kick the shit out of very frightened children

You say you wanna go home

you say you wanna be left alone

and so you turn to me

but instead of sympathy I find

my sentimental heart hardens

my sentimental heart hardens

Get your hands off me

Kid, you must be bad luck

My sentimental heart hardens

(backwards)

and the christian brothers

kick the shit out of very frightened children