I Thought I Was a Child - Jackson Browne

It's such a clever innocence

With which you do your sorcery

As if somehow the years just bow

And let that young girl go free

I thought I was a child

Until you turned and smiled

I thought I knew where I was going

Until I heard your laughter flowing

And came upon the wisdom in your eyes

Surprise

I've spent my whole life running 'round

Chasing songs from town to town

Thinking I'd be free so long as I never

Let love slow me down

So lonely and so wild

Until you turned and smiled

By now I should have long been gone

But here I am still looking on

As if I didn't know

Which way to run

It's such a clever innocence

With which you show myself to me

As if you know how it feels

To never be who you wanted to be

I thought I was a child

Until you turned and smiled

I thought that I was free but

I'm just one more prisoner of time

Alone within the boundaries of my mind

I thought I was a child