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Artist/Band: 10,000 Maniacs
Lyrics for Song: National Education Week
Lyrics for Album: Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983 [1990]



Honor salute and speak

To the corner standing flag

Do you remember how

The days of school were

Indivisible separate worlds



Compare contrast

These dreams absurd

Placid classroom faces

Breathe in the features

Of a demographics death map trilogy



Children read them well

Not to bury 3 of 4 sons

As the likes of chivalry

Not to take 6 of 30 bills

To manufacture Corpus Christi



And so you think it can be so serene

History's most intolerable famine

Has clutched our global tranquility

Reaped the lives of children

Maladies collaborate

With cyclic despair



Infanticide clamors to 20 times more

In 4th and 5th Worlds

The poor have always been

Beside us, amid us



Death has always been

As million cease 15 million

That's an annual reap

Add divide multiply sum 41 thousand


Album Lyrics: Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983 [1990]


10,000 Maniacs
"Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983 [1990]"


1. Anthem For Doomed Youth
2. Daktari
3. Death Of Manolete
4. Grey Victory
5. Groove Dub
6. Katrina's Fair
7. National Education Week
8. Orange
9. Pit Viper
10. Poor De Chiciro
11. The Latin One