All The Children - The Airborne Toxic Event

Time stands still when you’re always underage

So we learned to fake it like actors on a stage

Everyone we knew told us just what to do and how to feel about it

All our illusions fell.

We knew them so well until we learned to doubt all of it

All the children know if you jump you fall.

And if you jump too high,

you fall harder than before

All the children say, «Why'd you let me down?

Tell me, when you going to come

around?

I can’t live my life underground.

Tell me, when you going to come around?»

Calling, mama

Calling, mama

Calling, mama

Blue lights and shadows, we grew up way too fast

They stole our future.

But they can’t steal our past

Everyone knows that’s where you go if you have to run now

If I’m not back by dawn, tell them I’ll be gone and I’ll stay gone somehow

All the children know if you jump you fall.

And if you jump too high,

you fall harder than before

All the children say, «Why'd you let me down?

Tell me, when you going to come

around?

I can’t live my life underground.

Tell me, when you going to come around?»

«Hold your tongue.

Hold your tongue.

Hold your tongue.

Hold your tongue, boy.»

Stop staring, stop staring, stop staring, stop staring, stop staring,

stop staring, stop staring, stop staring, stop staring, stop staring,

stop staring, stop staring at everyone

All the children know if you run, you fall.

And if you run too fast,

you’ll fall harder than before

All the children say, «Why'd you let me down?

Tell me, when you going to come

around?

I can’t live my life underground.

Tell me, when you going to come around?»

Calling, mama

Calling, mama

Calling, mama