Yes, sleep in innocence for you know not yet the life
That will come to you
Yes, sleep in innocence
Because by age 12 you will be beset by violence
Live by street law and the power of the knife
Age 14 and you might be doing time
For Robbery, drugs or some other crime
Now children here is the bitter truth
By age 16 out of a gang of ten
2 of you will lie on the mortuary slab
Sleep in innocence children of the ghetto