Songs About / On: CHILDHOOD

(Quatro-Tuckey)
Now I'm done playing with fools
And I've paid all my childhood dues
I find the mountain much steeper to climb
Am I just one of the crowd? read more »

(Kerry Livgren)
Oh, I cannot tell you to make up your mind
And gather together the best of your kind
The prophets have spoken the words of ill fate
YOur childhood has ended you've taken the bait read more »

(Jimmy P. Brown II/Terry Taylor)
Unfortunate souls will often say
We need to cling to yesterday
An evil there or light to see
Gives us hope of what might be read more »

Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring read more »

(Brewster-Neeson-Brewster)
She walks down the line, no sense of time
eternity...
she talks of the years, blinded by tears
her magesty... read more »

I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
I don't care 'cause I'm not there
And I don't care if I'm here tomorrow
Again and again I've taken too much
Of the things that cost you too much
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

When I was a very small boy,
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we've grown up together
They're afraid of what they see
That's the price that we all pay
Our valued destiny comes to nothing
I can't tell you where we're going
I guess there was just no way of knowing
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
The chances are we've gone too far
You took my time and you took my money
Now I fear you've left me standing
In a world that's so demanding
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun... read more »

I feel so extraordinary
Something’s got a hold on me
I get this feeling I’m in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
I don’t care ’cause I’m not there
And I don’t care if I’m here tomorrow
Again and again I’ve taken too much
Of the things that cost you too much
I used to think that the day would never come
I’d see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
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Chorus (first time without background vocals):

This used to be my playground [used to be]
This used to be my childhood dream
This used to be the place I ran to
Whenever I was in need
Of a friend
Why did it have to end
And why do they always say read more »

Ring-a-round-the-rosies.
Pocket full of posies.
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Nursery rhymes are said, verses in my head.
Into my childhood, they’re spoon fed.
Hidden violence revealed, darkness that seems real.
Look at the pages that cause all this evil. read more »

Holding pieces of shattered dreamsaccepting nothing for what it seemsclosed minds-narrow visionresults are the same-just total divisionit's not a game taking pleasure in painnothing to win and nothing to gainwake up to the big mistakethose ways of life that make you breakMoving beyond-shedding the hatemoving beyong-wiping the slatemoving beyond-eith goals set highmoving beyond-new ways to applyAbuse this norm-slashing at the soulwreckage results of lost controltaught from childhood-words of broken natureresults of no goodI won't give up-I won't cave inthis is human nature-masterplan before life begangenerations of life rooted deepit's scarred to think what the future will reapMoving beyond...From this fragmentation-this crypted sceneI'm moving beyond-this wicked scheme read more »