In the misty morning, on the edge of time
We've lost the rising sun, a final sign
As the misty morning rolls away to die
Reaching for the stars, we blind the sky

We sailed across the air before we learned to fly
We thought that it could never end
We'd glide above the ground before we learned to run, run
Now it seems our world has come undone

Oh they say that it's over
And it just had to be
Ooh they say that it's over
We're lost children of the sea, oh

We made the mountains shake with laughter as we played
Hiding in our corner of the world
Then we did the demon dance and rushed to nevermore
Threw away the key and locked the door

Oh they say that it's over, yeah
And it just had to be
Yes they say that it's over
We're lost children of the sea

In the misty morning, on the edge of time
We've lost the rising sun, the final sign
As the misty morning rolls away to die
Reaching for the stars, we blind the sky

Oh they say that it's over
And it just had to be
Oh they say that it's over
Poor lost children of the sea, yeah

Look out
The sky is falling down
Look out
The world is spinning round and round and round
Look out
The sun is going black, black
Look out
It's never never never coming back
Look out


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Children Of The Sea Lyrics as written by Ronnie Dio Michael Butler

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  • +3
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    This song is not about sex or drugs. It about growing up. Its about children becoming adults. Its about the end of childhood.

    Oh they say that it's over And it just had to be Oh they say that it's over Poor lost children of the sea, yeah

    LOOK OUT! The sky is falling down LOOK OUT! The world is spinning round and round and round LOOK OUT OUT Out out! The sun is going black, black. LOOK OUT! It's never never never coming back

    Its about how people might wish they could go back in time and become a child again, but that can never happen. Your born you live you die THE END

    Hopefully you can have a good life

    purple girlon January 30, 2009   Link
  • +2
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    Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

    Do not do magick you do not understand, Omri.

    Technology without ethics.

    Learning to run before you can walk.

    Not seeing the forest for the trees.

    Incredible cosmic powers... itty bitty living space.

    Etc.

    charvanaon April 13, 2005   Link
  • +1
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    First, I found this on the net:

    "Children of the Sea - there has been a lot of speculation that it is about Atlantis, but Dio has only spoke of it as a song about "ecological awareness".

    So working off this basic direction, the song seems to be a commentary about mankind doing things before it truly understands the consequences of its action, ie. the reference to sailing across the air, before learning to fly, and thinking that this kind of thing would go on forever without a price to eventually pay for messing with the balance.

    And finally, though we try to escape the world and darkening the sky by the millions, like locusts, we are caught in the maelstrom of the final convulsions of the Earth dying along with the Sun.

    S.

    sanjaysinghon August 27, 2006   Link
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    Given the title of the song, I always wondered if "We'd glide above the ground before we learned to run" was a reference to how in our evolutionary history we swam (when you swim, you do glide above the ground) before we "learned to run" (or even have legs, for that matter).

    Lijemoon November 03, 2009   Link
  • +1
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    There is a interview with Ronnie on the meaing of Children of the Sea

    youtu.be/1ZUWLbEFI1g

    ravens1034on March 15, 2019   Link
  • 0
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    i like how you made the x into two letters

    widowmaker6662000on October 24, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I think it's about where Sabbath were at this point in their history. I'll go into more detail if anyone's interested. I think it's a pretty good lyric.

    Songmeaningsuseron November 17, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    It's about destroying nature and ourselves with technology.

    hotsoupwomanon June 24, 2006   Link
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    lordjackass - You really, really, really need to utilize those to squishy-like thingies situated below your forehead when attempting to study material of this magnitude. Seriously... "Sex and death and drugs..." Wake up!

    And with that, I'm off. I just felt like badgering an ignorant. And I did. :P

    I_am_Anteon September 21, 2006   Link
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    Yeah seriously... he liek what, seckstuple-posted? Bloody fuck... HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! brain explodes

    And it was just a joke between some guys, but maybe this was a warning to Kevin Costner about Waterworld...? XD nah, j/k...

    windless_oneon April 08, 2007   Link

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