I Spoke As A Child
Todd Snider
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Everyone has days like I'm having,
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Holdin on to anything that I can,
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To keep myself from anything but laughing,
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Looking back as far as I can stand.
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Out my window winter is almost over,
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I can no more see the sun behind these clouds,
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Lookin' back on where I was one year ago today,
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Laughing at the shape I'm in now.
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When I was a child I spoke as a child
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But all I heard was how I should get ahead,
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Now growing up it ain't anything but all
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This indecision with these debts and doubts
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And worries hanging over my head.
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When I was a child I spoke as a child,
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I wish I could remember what I said.
I'd like to find that old time feelin',
Somewhere in between what I've become,
Somewhere down the line it must have semed appealing,
So I suppose that it must work for some,
But I wanna go back to going crazy,
Believing every word that I was told,
You know sometimes growing up I think I'm getting wiser
And then other times I think I'm getting old.
When I was a child I spoke as a child,
But all I heard was how I should get ahead.
Now growing up it ain't anything but all this
Indecision with these debts and doubts and
Worries hangin' over my head.
When I was a child I spoke as a child,
I wish I could remember what I said.
When I was a child I spoke as a child,
God I wish I could remember what I said
