When, when will the icicle melt?
(The icicle, icicle)
And when, when will the picture show end?
(The picture show, picture show
I should not have read the paper today.
'Cause a child, child, child, child, he was taken away.
(Taken away)

There's a place for the baby that died.
And there's a time for the mother who cried.
And she will hold him in her arms sometime.
'Cause nine months is too long, too long, too long.

How, how could you hurt a child?
How could you hurt a child?
Now does this make you satisfied,
Satisfied, satisfied?
I don't know what's happening to people today.
When I child, child, child, child, he was taken away.
(Taken away)

There's a place for the baby that died.
And there's a time for the mother who cried.
And she will hold him in her arms sometime.
'Cause nine months is too long, too long, too long.
(Too long)