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Sweet child in time
You'll see the line
The line that's drawn between
Good and bad
See the blind man
Shooting at the world
Bullets flying
Oh, taking toll
If you've been bad
Oh, Lord, I bet you have
And you've not been hit
Oh, by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Oh
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
Sweet child in time
You'll see the line
The line that's drawn between
Good and bad
See the blind man
Shooting at the world
Bullets flying
Oh, taking toll
If you've been bad
Lord, I bet you have
And you've not been hit
Oh, by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Oh
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
You'll see the line
The line that's drawn between
Good and bad
See the blind man
Shooting at the world
Bullets flying
Oh, taking toll
If you've been bad
Oh, Lord, I bet you have
And you've not been hit
Oh, by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Oh
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
Sweet child in time
You'll see the line
The line that's drawn between
Good and bad
See the blind man
Shooting at the world
Bullets flying
Oh, taking toll
If you've been bad
Lord, I bet you have
And you've not been hit
Oh, by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes
Oh
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
Lyrics submitted by insurgento
Child in Time [Remastered 1995] Lyrics as written by Ian Gillan Jon Lord
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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It is his Uncle and Dad who were in the Bosnian war together, one of them got hit be flying lead. They did a bad thing, fighting and killing - yes the troops too not just the generals and the politicians.
Then they came home all PTSD and probably were not great as parents in that state. It sounds like an expression of being abused.
Sorry but I think these lyrics are about as crappy as Rock music ever wrote.I mean, was there any effort at all here? Nope. just scribble 4 lines and repeat or howl. These lyrics do little to help anyone understand what he was going thru, or his Dad and Uncle.... other than "you bad,. you might get hurt"
The music is stunningly awesome though, his guitar licks were being honed here.
Ya the crowd is hilariously out of touch, lol