Where Have All The Children Gone – Joseph Kerschbaum – Dance Moms – letras

The creaking silence of age echoes through the streetsSounds like old wooden floors under heavy feetAll of the children once running around have evacuatedOr maybe they just disappearedWhere have all the children gone?Just yesterday they were tying ribbons in treesAnd swinging from the branchesThey were leaping over coals and swooning at anythingWhere have all the children gone?Those of us who remain wander around like abandoned children in shopping mallsWhere have all the children gone?Maybe this is just a dreamMaybe we are sleeping in rooms filled with metal shelvesIf we put our ears to those shelves, they will tell us stories of how they were emptiedEmptied by the fingers of fathers, emptied into the flesh of their sons and daughtersWhere have all the children gone?We hope they’re hidingWe hope they’re playing a gameBut we know this is really happeningWhere have all the children gone?