Don’t Ever Let Your Children Grow Up – Maddie Poppe
Nghệ sĩ: Maddie Poppe
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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That was the way, that was the way it was
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When you're five years old and don't have nowhere else to run
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Except into your mother's arms, where she held you so tight
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And you're scared of the dark so you sleep with your little night light
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When you walked up to school and everyone there was your best friend
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When you learned your numbers and shapes and played pretend
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You didn't mind that your hair was a mess, you were so carefree
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You didn't know how cold and cruel this world would one day be
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We were just so young
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We should have known
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We should have known
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That one day we'd hate our bodies and we'd orbit around buttons on a phone
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We should have known
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That one day we'd pluck our eyebrow hairs and wonder why the cool kids stared at me
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Oh why'd it have to be
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Our imaginations have run dry
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We hate ourselves and have a nightly cry
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And then we act like we're fine
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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)
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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We would swing on the swings and jump off and pretend we could fly
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But as soon as we blinked we grew up and we're junior high
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So our dads dropped us off at the park and we stayed out 'till ten
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So the makeup comes out and we think we need the perfect boyfriend
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We were just so young
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How didn't we know
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How didn't we know
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That we'd be independent on our own and lose more friends while traveling down the road
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Oh, how didn't we know
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That there's more to life than sleepovers and jocks turn out worse than the science nerds
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But somehow that all gets blurred
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And some relationships they end real fast
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And though you want you might never get it back
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The doors close just like that
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It's depression and it's broken love, don't ever let your children grow up
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(Oh oh oh oh oh oh)
(Vocals)
Outro
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We're no longer young
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So now that we know
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So now that we know
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That this world could use some turning 'round, if only we could find some common ground
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But it's up to us
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And although at times it gets so rough, you have got to let your children grow up
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Oh oh oh oh oh oh
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Yeah, you have got to let your children, got to let your children grow up