THE ALTERNATIVE LYRICS

"Caroline's Carnival"

'Be back in five minutes,' mother warns, but the carnival's just begun,
A stranger holds her hand and shows her the merry-go-round and round,
Spinning, slowly, slowly. Faster, Faster,
Caroline's eyes shine in childish delight, faster, faster, she takes her last ride
on the merry-go-round of life.

The Carnival's over, lie down for lust, later eyes stare from a putrefying face,
what promises led you to this watery grave? Little girl's bodies used, abused,
media love it, sensation of the day, next to 'Luscious Lucy" Pornographic
dilemma while mother's tears burn.

Suburban children in a make believe world, Till one is taken for phallic
amusement. Young body torn and bleeding, But this one's a boy child,
Potential man. potential rapist is raped, media shocked in a different
dilemma, what filthy perverts enact such foul acts such as this,
Caroline's forgotten, but mother's tears burn.
Caroline's forgotten, but mother's tears burn.

Listen a while, just listen to the screams of little girl's incestuously loved, or
lying dead on the common.
Hear the sobs of battered women.
Hear the bones break.

But one little boy reaps the sympathy of millions.
He's alive isn't he. though his suffering was unjustified.

If one sexual assault is worthy of this kind of publicity, stirring anger and
disgust for this boy child's assailants, then each, and ever sexual and violent
assault should be given equal notoriety.

...But only mother's tears burn for Caroline.

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