CHILDHOOD DREAMS
 

Why was it somewhere along the way, I lost my childhood dreams

Maybe because the path I took, led to commerce and its schemes

Today there is nothing left, of that innocent wide-eyed child

Who'd expected to conquer the world, and who really had tried

With a pure and open heart, and the blind eagerness of youth

To change what was hated into loved, and lies into the truth

 

I sit now in this tower block, reflecting upon my past

Questioning all those childhood dreams, asking why they did not last

I should be happy but I'm not, for there's nobody to share

The trappings of the rich and famous, which lay around me here

When did I start to think that wealth, and power were everything

Now I realise that joy comes from, a few very simple things

 

Like family and loving friends, who'll be there until the end

Sharing all life's ups and downs, and giving you the chance to spend

Time building the kind of memories, you won't want to forget

Because they've been put together, in slow incremental steps 
If I had my life to live over, I know now what I'd do

To avoid making the same mistakes, I'd hold on tight to you