All the girls and boys are gone awaynThey never really had much to saynThey took off all their clothes and their shoesnPolitely asked to be excusednnThey're the children on paradenThey have secrets that they sharenThey're the children on paradenAnd nobody knows, nobody knowsnnAll the broken toys lie on the floornThere's no more laughter from down the hallnMirror, mirror, mirror on the wallnWhatever could have happened to them all?nnTo the children on paradenAnd all the secrets that they sharenThey're the children on paradenAnd nobody knows, nobody knowsnnAll across the world, just yesterdaynAll the girls and boys just went awaynThey took off all their clothes and their shoesnI'd love to someday hear all the newsnnAbout the children on paradenAnd all the secrets that they sharenThey're the children on paradenAnd nobody knows, nobody knowsnNobody knows, nobody knows