Playing games in the old schoolyard
Boarded up windows called us here
If I go seek when you go hide
Tell me friend what would I find
Running around through the schoolyard
Dormant swings, an empty sandbox lies
If I go seek when you go hide
Tell me friend what would I find

When are you coming down?
The world is a loaded gun without you
The game still goes on
But I no longer know on whose side are you

Once again our schoolyard warfare
We stand in line to see who gets picked out first
We're growing teeth and pointing fingers
But tell me friend what have we learned by now
How to fight and when to run
Read and write and laugh in the face of dark
Did you go seek when I went to hide?
Tell me friend what did you find?

When are you coming down?
The world is a loaded gun without you
The game still goes on
But I no longer know on whose side are you
Are you coming down?
The world is an empty playground without you
Our shadows grew long
Now I can no longer tell you the truth

So it goes on in every schoolyard
Kids growing tall instead of growing up
We take the fall so we can stand up
We want it all we know that we've got time
Now climbing up the broken tree house
So unsure of what I might find
If no one seeks when we go hide
Tell me friend do we stay underground?