Taller Children

Elizabeth & The Catapult

We're all just taller children
We're all just taller children
We're all just taller children
We're all just taller children

So you think you know, think you know better
Just because, just because you're older and wiser
Don't cha know, don't cha know
You don't get smarter, you're the same as you started
You just jump a little higher

In the end, we're all just taller children
In the end, we're all just taller children
In the end, we're all just taller children
In the end, we're all just taller children

You're talking like, talking like you got it together
Mr. Wall Street Wonder, you're the man of the hour
Don't cha know that you owe a call to your mother?
For such a rich pucker, thought you would have known better

In the end, we're all just taller children
In the end, we're all just taller children
In the end, we're all just taller children
In the end, we're all just taller

If you don't slow down, what's the point of winning?
If you can't let go, you just keep on spinnig
If you don't slow down, what's the point of winning?
If you can't let go, you just keep on spinning, spinning, spinning round

Got the kid and the pretty wife, got the boss and there's your life
Take a breathe before you dive, take a breathe before you die
There's a name on the dotted line, there's a name on the dotted line
Take a breathe before you bite, take a breathe before you buy

Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight, overcharge
Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight, decaffeinated
Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight, overchage
Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight, take a breathe before you die

We're all just taller children
We're all just taller children
We're all just taller children
We're all just taller children

In the end


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    I heard her speaking on KCRW about this song, its about the current economic situation. I think the idea of us being Taller Children is a way of saying how we're all kids here on earth and that even when you "grow up" we're all still relatively the same and subject to adolescent behavior.
    Ferresonon August 28, 2009   Link

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