Don't Ever Let Your Children Grow Up

That was the way, that was the way it was When you're five years old and don't have nowhere else to run Except into your mother's arms, where she held you so tight And you're scared of the dark so You sleep with your little night light When you walked up to school and everyone there was your best friend When you learned your numbers and shapes and played pretend You didn't mind that your hair was a mess, you were so carefree You didn't know how cold and cruel this world would one day be We were just so young We should have known We should have known That one day we'd hate our bodies And we'd orbit around buttons on a phone We should have known That one day we'd pluck our eyebrow hairs And wonder why the cool kids stared at me Oh why'd it have to be Our imaginations have run dry We hate ourselves and have a nightly cry And then we act like we're fine It's alcohol and bombs and drugs, don't ever let your children grow up Read more: Maddie Poppe - Don't Ever Let