The Child Inside

Heart held out against it
A life lived alone among the last of your memories
Driven past all sense of redemption
By the same ghosts that scare
The littlest version of a child left alone in the dark
Possible lives faded from view
as the world broke futures, no
This one's not for you

The child inside revives every mistake
The man in me knows I shouldn't have made
Drowning inside the might of your mind
Bound to a world designed just to grind
The life and the love and the spark in your eyes
As it takes and it takes and leaves nothing behind

Every new day carries the weight of the wind
And the call of the sky
As the child inside dreams about flight
To step out and away from the structures
Inside of our world
of our ways
Of the things
we decide

Chasing the hunt and the hope for a new
While the fear and the flee and regret came before
The battles inside leave you spent on the floor
Comfort became all you could hope for
And the world doesn't care doesn't mind if you die
Doesn't know you were here doesn't bother to ask why

The Child inside you still reaches through tears
And stands and stares at the thing you became
What can we do what can we do what can we share
Where can we go where can we go that's better than here
Better than now and what we have made

I don't know where I'm going or what's going to be
The child inside me begs something more anything
Please