On Children

     Am                     G
Your children are not your children.
              F                    
They are the sons and daughters of 
                    G
Life's longing for itself,
            F                  Am
They come through you, but not from 
you
                 G               
And though they're with you, they 
              Am
belong to themselves.

[Verse 2]
         Am                        
You may give them your love, but 
         G
not your thoughts.
        F                        G
For they have thoughts of their own,
         F                         
You may house their bodies but not 
       Am
their souls,
           G                       
For their souls dwell in the house 
      Am
of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in 
your dreams,

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[Chorus 1]
F G Am Am  (2x)
UUUUuuuuuuh

[Verse 3]
         Am               G
You may strive to be like them,
      F                        G
but seek not to make them like you.
     F                Am
For life goes, not backward
      G               Am
nor tarries with yesterday.

[Verse 4]
             Am                 
You are the bows from which your 
    G
children,
            F              G
as living arrows are sent forth,
      F                          
The archer sees the mark upon the 
  Am
path of the infinite,
       G                     Am
and He bends you, with His might
that His arrows may go swift and 
far.

[Chorus 2]
F G Am Am (2x)
UUUUuuuuuh

           F                    
Let your bending in the archer's 
 G               Am
hand be for gladness;
         F                   G    
as He loves the arrow that flies, 
                          Am
He loves all that is is stable,
          F                     
Let your bending in the archer's 
  G               Am
hand be for gladness,
                 F                 
for even as he loves the arrow that
   G                               
 flies, he loves also the bow that 
     Am
is stable