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Childhood's 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
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

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...

***

"Childhood's End" lyrics by Fish
Music by Marillion

.../...

~Lion65 photo taken in Dec 1968

Description
Childhood's 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
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

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...

***

"Childhood's End" lyrics by Fish
Music by Marillion

.../...

~Lion65 photo taken in Dec 1968