Handicap And Equality (2006 Digital Remaster)

Handicap And Equality (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill

All men are born equal at

The moment they arrive

Check the limbs and

Senses we require to survive

But some come deaf

And dumb and blinded

Some have damage to their brains:

Parents constantly reminded

That they'll never play the

Normal children's games

They may not be normal

But they're people just the same

If Christ had been born

Defective to fulfil the Father's plan

Would he be as easily accepted

As God made man

Or does the human value alter

In the crippled human frame

Though the tongue and fingers falter

Must we shut them out

And shut them up

And shut the case and

Whisper 'such a shame '

That's how we shut them away

Most of us are lucky

Free from accidents at birth

But their victims share our

Right to the inheritance of earth

For all their grunts their stumps

Their tumours their eternal wheelchairs

We're the freaks we're the inhumans

If we close our eyes and turn aside pretend

That if we do they'll not be there

They've got to face it so we've got to face it

Still they've got to live with it

In a worlds we supposedly share