All the Children Songtext
von The Airborne Toxic Event

Calling home
(You do not have a potentially violent person)
Calling home, home, home
(You have a person looking for someone to tell them what to do)
Calling home, home, home
Calling home, home, home

Time stands still when you′re always underage
So we learned to fake it like actors on a stage
And 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 gonna come around?
I can′t live my life underground
Tell me, when you gonna come around?


Calling, mama
Calling, mama
Calling, ah-ah
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 gonna come around?
I can't live my life underground
Tell me, when you gonna come around?

Hold your tongue
Hold your tongue
Hold your tongue
Hold your tongue


Hold your tongue
Hold your tongue
Hold your tongue
Hold your tongue now

Stop staring
Stop staring
Stop staring
Oh, stop staring

Stop staring
Stop staring
Stop staring
Oh, stop staring

Stop staring
Stop staring
Stop staring
Oh, stop staring
Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone

All the children know if you run, you fall
And if you run too fast
You′ll fall harder than before
Oh, oh-ho, oh
Oh, oh-ho, oh
Oh-ho, oh, oh, oh

All the children say, "Why'd you let me down?"
Tell me, when you gonna come around?
I can′t live my life underground
Tell me, when you gonna come around?

Calling, mama
Calling, mama
Calling, ah-ah
Calling, mama