Where did they go?

Where did they go
The hours spent
Among the angel's wings
Free-falling laughter
Tumbling down
Into an endless sea

I knew it once
That overwhelming
Sense of innocence
It's buried now in fields
Of businessmen with common sense

And when I
Run through
Sleeping forests
I stumble

And when wind
Sings an
Unknown chorus
I am deaf
I cannot hear

Rivers running down the street
They mumble secret combinations
Don't know their language anymore
I'm blind on those occasions
Where before the swing would take me high
I'm soaring through the blue
The motion makes me dizzy now
One more thing that I just can't do
Anymore

I used to chase white butterflies
And see where they would go
Now I watch them fly away
To someplace I don't know

Each sunrise was so magical
Each shooting star
Exciting
I'd make a wish
And be too wide-awake to go to sleep

But now

When I
Climb up
Summer trees
I look down
And don't feel
Taller than
The whole world
Not now

Can't you see
I miss it so
The wonder
Watch it snow
The flakes were angel's down
Falling from the sky
But now it all means nothing to me
And I want to know why
Tell my why

A box is just a box today
They used to be
Railroad cars
Or jail cells
Or turtle shells
Or spaceships to the stars

A dandelion's just a weed
A jewel's just a rock
A necklace is just jewelry
A stocking's just a sock

An arrowhead's a pointed stone
A door is just a door
And I'm just me, a child alone
Who seeks for something more

Where did it go
That opposite
Of insecurity
I'm looking now
I'll find it somehow
Blessed purity.

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