I Was A Child Lyrics

I was a child

I'd never thought I'd wander

Through the empty valleys of life

I'd never thought

I'll see someone much younger

Someone younger than me

But I see you all

These empty faces

That try to fill music and art and poetry

I'm trying to be nice

That's why I'm writing verses

That's why I say, you're not gonna be free

It's not fine

To show your empty faces

You're far as hell from all that is divine

It's not ok

To fill the empty spaces

With common things and cheap glasses of wine

I get caught in your game

And keep forgetting

That is not up to you to set me free

I keep forgetting

I hear Jim and Blake

Laughing down on me

Maybe I'm too drunk

And I forget

But you can't take a piece of trash and call it art

So all of you, burning matches

Who got as far as you can get

You can't replace with dust, my heart