Lyrics - I Thought I Was a Child by 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

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