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Tall Kids

3:37Album Not For Lack Of Trying 2025-10-03

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It smells like a child's dream, naive and stubborn, the one where you want to be among the “tall” and important, even if you haven't grown up yet. It seems as if the world is constantly measuring everything with a ruler, and inside you are bursting with the desire to prove that magic exists, but no one has noticed it yet.

The music sounds like a mixture of shame and delight: sometimes it's funny because of your own fantasies, sometimes it's upsetting because reality is not at all superheroic. And yet, these lines still insistently say, “Look at me.” Like a child wearing a cardboard crown who seriously believes that the clouds are holding him in their arms. And that is precisely where the honesty and poignancy that cannot be ignored lie.

Lyrics and translation

Original

Hey, can you hear me from my bed?

Do you know what's in my head?

Did you see me on the ground?

I was brave today, are you proud?

Lately, I've been running fast

So kind to grant what I asked

Just one more thing

Since you hear me loud and clear

Let me be with the tall kids

I will make it worth your while

They will see something in me

No, they won't run a mile

'Cause look at me now, I'm high as a cloud

Just dreaming about the day

When the tall kids wanna play

Do the tall kids wanna play?

Wait

Send the sun to mum someday

God, she hates it when it's grey

Just remember how she laughed

When you sent the sun over last

Do all you need to do first

I don't know how this works

Just after that

Since you hear me loud and clear

Let me be with the tall kids

I will make it worth your while

They will see something in me

No, they won't run a mile

'Cause look at me now, I'm high as a cloud

Just dreaming about the day

When the tall kids wanna play

Do the tall kids wanna play?

Make me magic

Make them care

I'll keep praying

Is that fair?

Oh, make me magic

Make them care

I'll keep praying, mm-hm

'Cause look at me now, I'm high as a cloud

Oh, look at me now, I'm high as a cloud

Just look at me now, I'm high as a cloud

Just dreaming about the day

When the tall kids wanna play

Do the tall kids wanna play?

Do the tall, hm?

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