When first I saw you,
your life had just be gun
I was bound to love you,
my very soul was one.
But now the bonds are changing,
your childhood's nearly gone.
Soon you will go, my son.
I fed your hunger,
I suffered all your pain
When you smiled, I'd answer,
that made you smile again
Are we becoming strangers
that once did breathe
Who are you now,
my son?
You wake in the morning,
but you're dreaming all the day.
At school you sit and gaze at
things so far away
Where old your hopes have faded
and yours have just begun
What do you dream, my son?
I've seen you watching,
amazement in your eyes
This world we've left you
a junk heap in disguise
When you watch us unbelieving,
we older wiser ones
what do you see my son
you ask a question
you wait for my reply
but the world's so changed
sometimes you know as much as in
the new world that is coming
the old must ask the young
then where will you turn my son
you'll reach for loving
you'll learn that people die
you'll go on dreaming once
again
you'll learn to cry.
And when you've joined our battle,
when you've learned right from wrong,
then you must go, my son.
you