CLOCKWORK.

❂ CHILD IN ME.

VERSE ONE:
it's like you've made a pact that only when the world ends in a whisper is when you'll truly lock your eyes with mine,
baby it's already time
it's like i had nothing familiar to stumble after so i clutched the hem of your shirt, and followed blindly to the strange and sweet surprises of life
because a guide never truly says goodbye
not if their maps point you right towards a golden mine
it's mine, mine, mine

CHORUS:
this is how i want to live
with a smile unerased
a teardrop hear and there
a temple with spirits raised
the beginning of no ends
this is how the child in me wants to live

but now i play with knives, play with knights
blink of an eye, play with a lifetime
if this is a playground, where is my child?
the child in me, stands tall as five feet five

VERSE TWO:
you drink the honey my heart implodes with one of the few times life is new and kind to me
your quenching thirst burns so clearer
you're endeared, my dear, everytime you're distant from me

so you drank from the forbidden well of life
it's time to be bid, well- goodbye
and only look back after your millionth lie
only when your clock's frozen in time
when your reflection won't speak to you,
when you look at me like i mean to you
if it was short-lived, i'm still standing at the grave
if you wish to reincarnate it

(CHORUS)

BRIDGE:
and it was not the way i planned
'cause even drunkards fall for it firsthand
your love, your love, your love
has made of me a fool, a crack in the glass

i want to crack them up, the firework crackers
i want to fire them up, the tiresome slackers

this is how i want to live
with a smile unerased
a teardrop hear and there
a temple with spirits raised

(CHORUS)