Jackson Browne Gets It
"It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery,
As if somehow the years just bow and let that young [boy] go free.
I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled.
I thought I knew where I was going until I heard your laughter flowing
And came upon the wisdom in your eyes.
Surprise.
I spent my life running 'round
Chasing songs from town to town.
Thinking I'd be free so long as I never let love slow me down.
So lonely and so wild, until you turned and smiled.
By now I should have long been gone
But here I am still looking on
As if I didn't know which way to run.
It's such a clever innocence with which you show myself to me
As if you know how it feels never to be who you wanted to be.
I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled.
I thought that I was free but I'm just one more prisoner of time
Alone within the boundaries of my mind.
I thought I was a child."
-Jackson Browne, "I Thought I Was a Child"
As if somehow the years just bow and let that young [boy] go free.
I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled.
I thought I knew where I was going until I heard your laughter flowing
And came upon the wisdom in your eyes.
Surprise.
I spent my life running 'round
Chasing songs from town to town.
Thinking I'd be free so long as I never let love slow me down.
So lonely and so wild, until you turned and smiled.
By now I should have long been gone
But here I am still looking on
As if I didn't know which way to run.
It's such a clever innocence with which you show myself to me
As if you know how it feels never to be who you wanted to be.
I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled.
I thought that I was free but I'm just one more prisoner of time
Alone within the boundaries of my mind.
I thought I was a child."
-Jackson Browne, "I Thought I Was a Child"