Where is the child?
Does anyone know?
She’s been forgotten
When did she go?
The times are brutal
Borders are crossed
Where is the child?
The child is lost 

Where is the child?
Someone must know
Who saw her last?
Why did she go?
We were under attack
reaching rock-bottom
That was our focus
The child was forgotten

It’s an open secret
we spread and react
and if it’s not true
then the rumour’s a fact
Although she may have been
sometimes forgotten
there is no suggestion
she was misbegotten

She was our reason
our religion, our cause
our best excuse
for emergency laws
Invoked so often
to explain and subdue
the forgotten child
from whom we all grew

Child of our nation
our icon, our future
gone from our records
on no computer
The times are brutal
Borders are crossed
I think she took flight
and now we’re all lost

Where is the child?
Where is the child?
The times are brutal
Borders are crossed
Where is the child?
The child is lost