Child Songtext
von Peter Hammill

I don′t know quite what's happening
and my eyes don′t see too clear;
all I know is I need you here,
if only to shield me from the mood of the world
and hold me and say it doesn't matter;
but I'm like a child whose dreams are shattered.


Crowding round me, images of broken thought,
lines of my life now overgrown.
All I can feel is I′m so alone,
without even your bright eyes to reach into my mind
and say that in my life I′ve done right,
and I'm like a moonchild in the sunlight.

So cast your thoughts upon me, wherever you are,
that I may feel you close beside me
and hold your hand, for you to guide me
through all these catacombs which freeze me with their touch;
unknowing, knowing so much, my mind cries out
and I′m like a child when the light's out

With a child′s fear of the dark...