12/01/1999 - coldbrew - lyrics

Childhood, the state of being a child, the feeling of freedom.
I made this album, because I often long to be a child again.
Days go by and I think,
how great would it be just to go back and play with my Hot Wheels, on the kitchen floor while my mom is washing dishes
How great would it be to go back and play catch with my dad in the backyard preparing for my next tee-ball game.
How great would it be to go back to recess with my friends spinning Beyblades and playing four square.
How great would it be to go back to the days of Nerf Gun Wars and Mario Kart Tournaments.

What I'd give to go back to those blockbuster nights, where we go rent a movie, pop popcorn on the stove.
What I'd give to ride on those gym scooters one last time.

But eventually we grow up, we all do.
Way too fast it seems,
and we move out we get our own place and start our own lives, and it sucks but its a beginning of a new chapter.

See our lives are a novel.
full of ups and downs and lefts and rights and,
bad decisions and great decisions,
and decisions are ultimately why we are who we are in the first place.

I guess all I'm really trying to say here is that we take life way too seriously as adults.
we care too much about what other people think about us,
we care too much about what car we drive,
and we just care about things that simply don't matter.

I found the meaning of life is simple, try to be as happy as you can, as often as you can,
because happiness is truly all that matters.
It's important to be grateful of what you've experienced, and what you have yet to experience.
So try new things, tell your family you love them and, most of all, do what makes you happy.

These are the things that you've learnt in childhood, yet they somehow get lost in the politic of society,
but just because something is lost, doesn't mean it can't be found.

I think its about time that we live like kids again.