Children After Rain

I watch the film but I can't see

Beyond the child refuge.

Who never made the news at all.

And as the uniforms parade,

She takes her hand down from her face

To see the mighty men of war.

At twelve years old she goes to school

In faded jeans and faded youth

And memories she can't forget.

Her father dead; her brother blames

The U.V.F., the I.R.A.

Or some  much piece of alphabet.

Chorus:

The're only children after rain

A single face, a thousand names,

A single voice to count the cost,

The're only children after rain,

A photograph without a frame,

A crucifix without a cross.

In the frightened eyes of  a lonely child

With no lullabies or no nursery rhymes

Just another tear to fall across another face.

We plant the seed and the seed will grow;

We come to reap what we can sow,

Then we wonder at it all, and will it  ever change ?

Now she laughs - now she cries;

She takes it in and she takes her time

And I can see tomorrow in her eyes.

Words….Paul Foskin

                         Music….Paul Grant and Paul Foskin.