Childhoods End

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

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I saw you, the child, that once loved The child before they broke his 
heart
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Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost
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Hey you,      surprised? More than surprised
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To find the answers to the questions Were always in your own eyes

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

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

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Hey you, you've survived. Now you've arrived
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To be reborn in the shadow of the magpie
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Now you realise, that you've got to get out of here

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You've found the leading light of destiny, burning in the ashes of 
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your memory
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You want to change the world
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You'd resigned yourself to die a broken rebel
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But that was looking backward    Now you've found the light

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

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

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