Children go run and jump and play you'll be men and women some day   Then you'll have to leave your world of make believe now children   Young carefree children   Children need someone to understand children need someone to hold their hands yeah   To cheer you when you're sad to spank you when you're bad   Now children haughty naughty children      Ride goes before destruction the Holy Spirit goes before the fall   Don't you know that we're all children and it's all for one and one for all   Oh children call each other names children playing grown up games   And the thing that's really sad we lose the faith we had   When we were children loud proud children   were children clowns proud children      Children who think that they are grown children with children of their own   From the cradle to the grave why must we all behave like children   Lost lonely children