CHILDHOODS END?

And it was morning,
And I found myself mourning,
For a childhood that I thought had disappeared.
I looked out the window
And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone, (1)
I’m not alone, I turned to the mirror

I saw you, the child, that once loved.
The child before they broke his heart,
Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost.

Hey you, surprised? More than surprised
To find the answers to the questions
Were always in your own eyes.

Do you realise?
That you give it on back to her,
But that would only be
Retraced in all the problems that you ever knew,
So untrue,
For she’s got to carry on with her life
And you’ve got to carry on with yours.

So I see it’s me, I can do anything
And I’m still the child,
‘Cos the only thing misplaced was direction
And I found direction.
There is no childhood’s end
You are my childhood friend, lead me on

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Hey you, you’ve survived.
Now you’ve arrived to be reborn
In the shadow of the magpie

Now you realise
That you’ve got to get out of here.
You’ve found the leading light of destiny,
Burning in the ashes of your memory,
You want to change the world?
You’d resigned yourself to die a broken rebel,
But that was looking backward
Now you’ve found the light.

You, the child that once loved,
The child before they broke his heart
Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost

So it’s me I see, I can do anything,
I’m still the child.
‘Cos the only thing misplaced was direction
And I found direction.
There is no childhood’s end
I am your childhood friend, lead me on...