She was someone's favorite daughter
He was someone's only son
They were raised up in a country
where anything could be done
They were raised up for the future
They were protected from the past
And set free with no directions
In a world that was changing so fast
Oh, was a children's crusade
It was an innocent mistake
It was the foolish dream of children
It was the childish dream of fools
Who had drifted to a new world
A wild world without rules
And they mistook it for the new
And they danced beneath the moon
While the war raged all around them
It would rage within them so soon
And it stripped them of their costumes
And it stripped them of their youth
Oh, it a children's crusade
Oh, it was an innocent mistake
it was a children's crusade
Oh, it was such an innocent