"When the Children Cry" is a power ballad[4][5] performed by Danish-American glam metal band White Lion.
The song was written immediately after Live Aid, and was partly influenced by singer Mike Tramp's childhood.
Imagine being a kid from Copenhagen, Denmark, sitting there in Staten Island and writing, “No more presidents, and all the wars will end" at the time when Ronald Reagan is the president.
[7]The song was re-recorded in 1999 on the album Remembering White Lion (also released as "Last Roar" in 2004) and a live version was released on the White Lion live album Rocking the USA.
[8] In 2004, an acoustic version of "When the Children Cry" was included on the VH1 Classic Metal Mania: Stripped compilation.