CHILDHOOD’S END

I want to go back in time to
A world that was simple and clean
To live again among the shadows of a child’s dream.
I want to come running in from my own backyard
And wrap myself in my loving mother’s arms,
There I used to play and in her was my best friend,
But now it won’t seem to be again
For this is surely “childhood’s end.”

CHORUS:
Childhood’s end is a sky without a rainbow
But where one dream ends another must grow
Every color that was locked away in the book of my mind
In memories of childhood I can always find.

That lightening flash is a memory illumed in the darkness
As it seems my joy has washed away with the rain
All the while my heart aches with a strange longing pain.
I wanted assurance that something lasts,
That all we do does not just pass –
For in photographs and memories, time like a specter sends
The message that this is surely “childhood’s end.”
Repeat CHORUS:

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