Don't Ever Let Your Children Grow Up Lyrics - Maddie Poppe

That was the way, that was the way it was 

When you're five years old and don't have nowhere else to run 

Except into your mother's arms, where she held you so tight 

And you're scared of the dark so you sleep with your little night light 

When you walked up to school and everyone there was your best friend 

When you learned your numbers and shapes and played pretend 

You didn't mind that your hair was a mess, you were so carefree 

You didn't know how cold and cruel this world would one day be 

We were just so young 

We should have known 

We should have known 

That one day we'd hate our bodies and we'd orbit around buttons on a phone 

We should have known 

That one day we'd pluck our eyebrow hairs and wonder why the cool kids stared at me 

Oh why'd it have to be 

Our imaginations have run dry 

We hate ourselves and have a nightly cry 

And then we act like we're fine 

It's alcohol and bombs and drugs, don't ever let your children grow up 

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(Oh oh oh oh oh oh) 

We would swing on the swings and jump off and pretend we could fly 

But as soon as we blinked we grew up and we're junior high 

So our dads dropped us off at the park and we stayed out 'till ten 

So the makeup comes out and we think we need the perfect boyfriend 

We were just so young 

How didn't we know 

How didn't we know 

That we'd be independent on our own and lose more friends while traveling down the road 

Oh, how didn't we know 

That there's more to life than sleepovers and jocks turn out worse than the science nerds 

But somehow that all gets blurred 

And some relationships they end real fast 

And though you want you might never get it back 

The doors close just like that 

It's depression and it's broken love, don't ever let your children grow up 

(Oh oh oh oh oh oh) 

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(Vocals) 

We're no longer young 

So now that we know 

So now that we know 

That this world could use some turning 'round, if only we could find some common ground 

But it's up to us 

And although at times it gets so rough, you have got to let your children grow up 

Yeah, you have got to let your children, got to let your children grow up