i keep to myself
what i might share with others
but they don´t seem to understand
i open my mouth
to rediscover
that i don´t have the words at my command
holding out
for a world so much better
but i´m a stranger in a stranger´s land
all my friends have sold out
couldn´t handle the pressure
counting their blessings trying to salvage what they can

children say - children say
we open our minds as one
but one more day - slips away
why don´t the dreams of the young never come to be

when i overhear
my parents conversations
well i´m struck by the things they say
it seems they traded the years
for mere complications
who ever thought it could end this way
they close the door
but they can´t lock it
´cause something of their childhood remains
and they´ve felt it before
when the man in their pocket
counted the cost of their material gains

children say - come what may
be strong for the friends you´ve known
but one fine day - (not) far away
will we remember the love we used to own
children say - children say
we open our minds as one
as one more day slips away
why don´t the dreams of the young never come to be

well you knew what i was saying
but did you know what it meant
when you saw that look in my eye
did you know it was heaven sent
was it all a waking dream
all that time we must have spent
well i guess it must have been
somehow that feeling came and went

children say - come what may
be strong for the friends you´ve known
but one fine day - (not) far away
will we remember the love we used to own
children say - children say
we open our minds as one
as one more day - slips away
why don´t the dreams of the young never come to be
children say - children say
we thought it would never go
as one more day - slips away
who ever thought we could be so lonely