Childish Things Lyrics

You think I’m crazy, but I can't understand, just how the hell that this has gotten so out of hand.

It makes me wonder, ‘bout the American dream, when everything we love is ripped apart at the seams.

I know that we may never agree, but that’s not enough to justify you hating on me. 

Please tell me, cuz I really can’t see.

Why you depend on… fools! to tell you what to believe

There's an evil, and there can be no doubt, that everyone will know who I am talking about.  

And there’s a darkness, I never thought I would see, that’s blinding half the country to our insanity.

How can you be, so heartless and cruel? To anyone who might be any different than you.

And there are zombies, herded like sheep. 

Their lives spent walking in their sleep. 

Mother America. The red white and blue. Where hypocrites and bigots stick together like glue. 

Mother America the land of the few.  It's been a long time coming but the devil he’s coming for you. 

Mother America, was it all just a dream?  Welcome to the home of fear and hypocrisy.

Mother America, land of dishonesty.  Have we ever really been the land of the free?

Mother America, you ain't got no clue.  Everyone who’s different, they're all evil, evil to you.

Your religion comes from reality stars, pastors, politicians buying mansions and cars.

And you’re exploited, by the sharks on TV 

Cuz the truth don’t matter if the rich get fatter, love gets shattered can't you see?

Mother America, paranoid and deranged.  Where losers represent the dna they've exchanged

Mother America, all the lives you’ve betrayed.  Founding fathers must be turning round in their graves.

Mother America, people yearn to be free, but they are shunned by your distorted morality.

Mother America. I cannot believe, how quick you are to share your latest conspiracy.

It's been a long time coming but the devil he’s coming for you.

Sometimes you're better off dead, There's a gun in your hand it's pointing at your head

You think you're mad, too unstable, Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables

In a restaurant in a West End town, Call the police, there's a madman around

Running down underground, To a dive bar in a West End town

In a West End town, a dead end world, The East End boys and West End girls

In a West End town, a dead end world, The East End boys and West End girls

West End girls

Too many shadows, whispering voices, Faces on posters, too many choices

If, when, why, what? How much have you got?

Have you got it, do you get it, If so, how often?

Which do you choose, A hard or soft option?

(How much do you need?)

In a West End town, a dead end world, The East End boys and West End girls

In a West End town, a dead end world, The East End boys and West End girls

West End girls

West End girls

In a West End town, a dead end world, The East End boys and West End girls

Ooh, West End town, a dead end world, East End boys, West End girls

West End girls

You got a heart of glass or a heart of stone, Just you wait 'til I get you home

We've got no future, We've got no past

Here today, built to last, In every city, in every nation

From Lake Geneva to the Finland station

(How far have you been?)

In a West End town, a dead end world, The East End boys and West End girls

A West End town, a dead end world, East End boys, West End girls

West End girls

West End girls

West End girls

(How far have you been?)

I packed my bags today, leaving home tomorrow. But I know damn well that where I go, you will follow

Don’t know where I'll be, on this road to sorrow. For everything I need, I’ve always had to beg or borrow

You don't tell me that all my life will be worth living 

You don't, tell me, that all my sins will be forgiven 

You don’t, tell me, you're saving me a place in heaven  

Your words, kill me, just talking to the ghost in my backroom

Love was always there, but not without conditions

I was always wrong, and you required my submission. 

No apologies, just foolish indignation. Leading to a life of loneliness and isolation.  

You don't tell me that all my life will be worth living

You don't, tell me, that all my sins will be forgiven

You don’t, tell me, you're saving me a place in heaven

Your words, kill me, just talking to the ghost in my backroom

I want you to know me.  Don’t want you to show me how to live.

Don’t need a reprimand, Just need you to understand me.

You don't talk to me, you won't talk to me. You know you never talk with me. You won't let me be. You won’t set me free.  And I'm lost in what I need to be. 

You don't tell me that all my life will be worth living

You don't, tell me, that all my sins will be forgiven

You don’t, tell me, you're saving me a place in heaven

Your words, kill me, just talking to the ghost in my backroom

You never had much faith in me. Your motives were a mystery  

You gave me life, but little hope. Haunted by this restless ghost

The die was cast, you were amused, that I should end up just like you

A blind man who can never see. This isn't how it’s meant to be

The hour is late, there’s no escape. I’m bound to live a life by fate

It's such a bitter aftertaste. My confidence is laid to waste

I’ll never see, I’ll never know. I’ll never pay the debt I owe

How different it could all have been. If you had only let me in

I took this long, to realize, I took this love for granted. I can’t recall, to water all, the seeds that you had planted

Did I show you, what I’m feeling, that my heart still beats for you. Do I see you, when you’re near me, I thought you always knew

A wasted life, of pointless strife, walking in the shadows.  I stomp my feet upon the earth, and shoot the sky with arrows

Do you see me, do you hear me?  Am I on the outside now? Are you taking what I'm giving? You tried to show me how

For the time being, I'll spend my time being with you

For the time being, I'll spend my life with a love that's true

Can I tell you, that I’m sorry, or is it far too late?  Can I beg you, for forgiveness, why did I make you wait?

For the time being, I'll spend my time being with you. 

For the time being, I'll spend my life with a love that's true

She's gone. And I don't believe she's coming back this time. She’s leaving what she doesn't need behind.

And I know that I deserve it, and I know I’m far from worth it.  But I don't believe she's coming back this time

If I could only find a way, to travel back in time, to right the wrongs, I overlooked so, I could call you mine.  

I’d tell you that, I’m better now, my life’s an open page.  But why would you believe me now? It's clear I’ll never change

For the time being, I'll spend my time being with you. 

For the time being, I'll spend my life with a love that's true. 

For the time being, I'll spend my time being with you. 

For the time being, I'll spend my life with a love that's true

All the love that is lost from the things that you do, that you cannot regret ‘til it’s taken from you

And the tears that fall, like the rain on the land, are lost to the sea and the grains of the sand

I know it's too late and I waited too long, for whatever it's worth, my regret is this song  

I hope you believe that my words are all true, all the love in my heart is the love that’s for you 

Lives in the balance, is that where you want to be

Lights in the distance, not to be seen

Now and forever, you're not alone 

Maybe tomorrow, it will be known 

Well you got to jump back, ask yourself, who you want to be

Maybe yourself, or someone else you see

And you can go uptown, downtown, a whole world there to choose

I’ll make up my mind, if it’s all the same to you

Lives in the balance, is that who you want you want to be, lives in the balance

Millions of faces, who want to be seen. 

They're lights on a highway, that mean nothing to me. 

Dead on arrival, into this world

And it makes no difference, all boys and girls

Well you got to jump back, ask yourself, who you want to be

Maybe yourself, or someone else you see

And you can go uptown, downtown, a whole world there to choose

I’ll make up my mind, if it’s all the same to you

Lives in the balance, is that who you want you want to be, lives in the balance

I’m always thinking, is this who I want to be

Or or am I crashing into what I can’t see

Lives in the balance, is this who I want to be

Lost in the darkness, with nothing to see

Well you got to jump back, ask yourself, who you want to be

Maybe yourself, or someone else you see

And you can go uptown, downtown, a whole world there to choose

I’ll make up my mind, if it’s all the same to you

Coffee on the window sill, I watch it growing cold until I see your face

And I feel your hand inside of mine, and all the things I can’t define are put in place

And all that I could do or say, could never be enough, to make you understand

I ain’t anything, without you, I ain’t anything, without you,

I‘m a ship without an anchor, drifting across the sea

A prayer without an answer, a lock without a key

And as the years pass quickly by, there’s one thing I can’t deny, my love still grows

Without a word from you to me, a message passes silently, and then I know

And all that I could do or say, could never be enough, to make you understand

I ain’t anything, without you, I ain’t anything, without you

I‘m a ship without an anchor, drifting across the sea

A prayer without an answer, a lock without a key

A life that’s without meaning, is just a waste of time

A song without the feeling, with words that do not rhyme

And you are my everything, cause you are, what you are

And I would do anything, to bring you near, when you’re far

And you are my best friend, best friend, for my life, for all time, forever

I‘m a ship without an anchor, drifting across the sea

A prayer without an answer, a lock without a key

Well, I know some things were meant to be, but life is such a mystery, so I swear to you

That on the day I made you mine, I took a vow that’s for all time

And all that I could do or say, could never be enough, to make you understand

I ain’t anything, without you, I ain’t anything, without you,

If I could find the words to tell you, all the things you mean to me

And let you know, that I’m lost without you, and find a way to make you see

I‘m a ship without an anchor, drifting across the sea

A prayer without an answer, a lock without a key

A life that’s without meaning, is just a waste of time

A song without the feeling, with words that do not rhyme

I ain’t anything, I ain’t anything, I ain’t anything, without you