Childhoods 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
We're 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
'Cause the only thing misplaced was direction and I found direction
There is no childhood's end, there is no childhood's end
'Cause you are my childhood friend, 'cause you are my childhood friend
Oh, 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
'Cause the only thing misplaced was direction and I found direction
There is no childhood's end, there is no childhood's end
There is no childhood's end, I am your childhood friend
Oh, lead me on