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| Van Morrison lyrics
Song of Being A Child lyrics
When the child was a child
It walked with arms hanging
Wanted the stream to be a river and the river a torrent
And this puddle, the sea
When the child was a child, it didn't know
It was a child
Everything for it was filled with life and all life was one
Saw the horizon without trying to reach it
Couldn't rush itself And think on command
Was often terribly bored
And couldn't wait
Passed up greeting the moments
And prayed only with it's lips
When the child was a child
It didn't have an opinion about a thing
Had no habits
Often sat crossed-legged, took off running
Had a cow lick in it's hair
And didn't put on a face when photographed
When the child was a child
It was the time of the following questions
Why am I me and why not you
Why am I here and why not there
Why did time begin and where does space end
Isn't what I see and hear and smell
Just the appearance of the world in front of the world
Isn't life under the sun just a dream
Does evil actually exist in people
Who really are evil
Why can't it be that I who am
Wasn't before I was
And that sometime I, the I, I am
No longer will be the I, I am
When the child was a child
It gagged on spinach, on peas, on rice pudding
And on steamed cauliflower
And now eats all of it and not just because it has to
When the child was a child
It woke up once in a strange bed
And now time and time again
Many people seem beautiful to it
And now not so many and now only if it's lucky
It had a precise picture of paradise
And now can only vaguely conceive of it at best
It couldn't imagine nothingness
And today shudders in the face of it
Go for the ball
Which today rolls between it's legs
With it's I'm here it came
Into the house which now is empty
When the child was a child
It played with enthusiasm
And now only with such former concentration
Where it's work is concerned
When the game, task, activity, subject happens to be it's work
When the child was a child
It was enough to live on apples and bread. And it's still that way
When the child was a child berries fell
Only like berries into it's hand. And still do
The fresh walnuts made it's tongue raw. And still do
Atop each mountain it craved
Yet a higher mountain. And in each city it craved
Yet a bigger city. And still does
Reach for the cherries in the treetop
As elated as it still is today
Was shy in front of strangers. And still is
It waited for the first snow. And still waits that way
When the child was a child
It waited restlessly each day for the return of the loved one
And still waits that way
When the child was a child
It hurled a stick like a lance into a tree
And it's still quivering there today
The child, the child was a child
Was a child, was a child, was a child, was a child
Child, child, child
When the child, when the child, when the child
When the child, when the child
The child, child, child, child, child
(added words by Van Morrison)
And on and on and on and on, etc. And onward
With a sense of wonder
Upon the highest hill. Upon the highest hill
When the child was a child
Are you there
Shassas, shassas
Up on a highest hill
When the child was a child, was a child, was a child
Was a child, was a child, was a child, etc.
(fade to end)
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Sweet Thing lyrics
Cyprus Avenue lyrics
The Way Young Lovers Do lyrics
Ballerina lyrics
Slim Slow Slider lyrics
Domino lyrics
Crazy Face lyrics
Give Me A Kiss (Just One Sweet Kiss) lyrics
I've Been Working lyrics
Call Me Up In Dreamland lyrics
I'll Be Your Lover, Too lyrics
Blue Money lyrics
Virgo Clowns lyrics
Gypsy Queen lyrics
Sweet Jannie lyrics
If I Ever Needed Someone lyrics
Street Choir lyrics
It Stoned Me lyrics
Crazy Love lyrics
Caravan lyrics
Into the Mystic lyrics
Come Running lyrics
These Dreams of You lyrics
Brand New Day lyrics
Everyone lyrics
Glad Tidings lyrics
Wild Night lyrics
(Straight To Your Heart) Like A Cannonball lyrics
Old Old Woodstock lyrics
Starting A New Life lyrics
You're My Woman lyrics
Tupelo Honey lyrics
I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative) lyrics
When That Evening Sun Goes Down lyrics
Moonshine Whiskey lyrics
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) lyrics
Gypsy lyrics
Listen To The Lion lyrics
Saint Dominic's Preview lyrics
Redwood Tree lyrics
Almost Independence Day lyrics
Snow in San Anselmo lyrics
Warm Love lyrics
Hard Nose the Highway lyrics
Wild Children lyrics
The Great Deception lyrics
Bein' Green lyrics
Autumn Song lyrics
Purple Heather lyrics
Fair Play lyrics
Linden Arden Stole The Highlights lyrics
Who Was That Masked Man lyrics
Streets of Arklow lyrics
You Don't Pull No Punches But You Don't Push The River lyrics
Bulbs lyrics
Cul De Sac lyrics
Comfort You lyrics
Come Here My Love lyrics
Country Fair lyrics
You Gotta Make It Through the World lyrics
It Fills You Up lyrics
The Eternal Kansas City lyrics
Joyous Sound lyrics
Flamingos Fly lyrics
Heavy Connection lyrics
Cold Wind In August lyrics
Kingdom Hall lyrics
Checkin' It Out lyrics
Natalia lyrics
Venice U.S.A. lyrics
Lifetimes lyrics
Wavelength lyrics
Santa Fe lyrics
Beautiful Obsession lyrics
Hungry For Your Love lyrics
Take It Where You Find It lyrics
Full Force Gale lyrics
Stepping Out Queen lyrics
Troubadours lyrics
Rolling Hills lyrics
You Make Me Feel So Free lyrics
Angeliou lyrics
And The Healing Has Begun lyrics
It's All In The Game lyrics
You Know What They're Writing About lyrics
Haunts Of Ancient Peace lyrics
Summertime In England lyrics
Satisfied lyrics
Wild Honey lyrics
Spirit lyrics
When Heart Is Open lyrics
Northern Muse (Solid Ground) lyrics
Dweller On The Threshold lyrics
Beautiful Vision lyrics
She Gives Me Religion lyrics
Cleaning Windows lyrics
Vanlose Stairway lyrics
Aryan Mist lyrics
Across The Bridge Where Angels Dwell lyrics
Higher Than The World lyrics
Connswater lyrics
River of Time lyrics
Celtic Swing lyrics
Rave On, John Donne lyrics
Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 1 lyrics
The Street Only Knew Your Name lyrics
Cry For Home lyrics
Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 2 lyrics
Tore Down A La Rimbaud lyrics
Ancient of Days lyrics
The Master's Eyes lyrics
What Would I Do lyrics
A Sense of Wonder lyrics
If You Only Knew lyrics
Let the Slave lyrics
A New Kind of Man lyrics
Got To Go Back lyrics
Oh The Warm Feeling lyrics
Foreign Window lyrics
A Town called Paradise lyrics
In The Garden lyrics
Tir Na Nog lyrics
Here Comes The Knight lyrics
Thanks For The Information lyrics
One Irish Rover lyrics
Ivory Tower lyrics
Spanish Steps lyrics
The Mystery lyrics
Queen of the Slipstream lyrics
I Forgot That Love Existed lyrics
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child lyrics
Celtic Excavation lyrics
Someone Like You lyrics
Alan Watts Blues lyrics
Give Me My Rapture lyrics
Did Ye Get Healed lyrics
Allow Me lyrics
Star Of The County Down lyrics
Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta (My Match It Is Made) lyrics
Raglan Road lyrics
She Moved Through the Fair lyrics
I'll Tell Me Ma lyrics
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My Lagan Love lyrics
Marie's Wedding lyrics
Irish Heartbeat lyrics
Celtic Ray lyrics
Whenever God Shines His Light On Me lyrics
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I'd Love To Write Another Song lyrics
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Daring Night lyrics
These Are The Days lyrics
Real Real Gone lyrics
Enlightenment lyrics
So Quiet In Here lyrics
Avalon of the Heart lyrics
See Me Through lyrics
Youth Of 1,000 Summers lyrics
In The Days Before Rock 'N' Roll lyrics
Start All Over Again lyrics
She's A Baby lyrics
Memories lyrics
Beside You lyrics
Brown Eyed Girl lyrics
Chick-A-Boom lyrics
Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) lyrics
He Ain't Give You None lyrics
I Love You (The Smile you Smile) lyrics
It's All Right lyrics
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Madame George lyrics
Midnight Special lyrics
Ro Ro Rosey lyrics
Send Your Mind lyrics
Spanish Rose lyrics
T.B. Sheets lyrics
The Back Room lyrics
Who Drove the Red Sports Car lyrics
Professional Jealousy lyrics
I'm Not Feeling It Anymore lyrics
Ordinary Life lyrics
Some Peace of Mind lyrics
So Complicated lyrics
I Can't Stop Loving You lyrics
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See Me Through Part II (Just A Closer Walk With Thee) lyrics
Take Me Back lyrics
By His Grace lyrics
Hymns To the Silence lyrics
On Hyndford Street lyrics
Be Thou My Vision lyrics
Carrying A Torch lyrics
Green Mansions lyrics
Pagan Streams lyrics
Quality Street lyrics
It Must Be You lyrics
I Need Your Kind Of Loving lyrics
Too Long in Exile lyrics
Bigtime Operators lyrics
Ball & Chain lyrics
In the Forest lyrics
Till We Get the Healing Done lyrics
Gloria lyrics
Wasted Years lyrics
Before the World Was Made lyrics
Tell Me What You Want lyrics
Perfect Fit lyrics
Russian Roulette lyrics
Raincheck lyrics
You Don't Know Me lyrics
No Religion lyrics
Underlying Depression lyrics
Songwriter lyrics
Days Like This lyrics
I'll Never Be Free lyrics
Melancholia lyrics
Ancient Highway lyrics
In the Afternoon lyrics
All Saints Day lyrics
Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) lyrics
Centrepiece lyrics
Don't Worry About A Thing lyrics
Early In The Morning lyrics
Heathrow Shuffle lyrics
How Long Has This Been Going On? lyrics
I Will be There lyrics
Moondance lyrics
Sack O'Woe lyrics
That's Life lyrics
The New Symphony Sid lyrics
Who Can I Turn To? lyrics
Your Mind Is On Vacation lyrics
One of These Days lyrics
You Can Count On Me (To Do My Part) lyrics
If You Live lyrics
Was lyrics
Look Here lyrics
City Home lyrics
No Trouble Livin' lyrics
Benediction lyrics
Back On The Corner lyrics
Tell Me Something lyrics
I Don't Want Much lyrics
News Nightclub lyrics
Perfect Moment lyrics
Rough God Goes Riding lyrics
Fire In The Belly lyrics
This Weight lyrics
Waiting Game lyrics
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn lyrics
Burning Ground lyrics
It Once Was My Life lyrics
Sometimes We Cry lyrics
If You Love Me lyrics
The Healing Game lyrics
Goin' Down Geneva lyrics
Philosophers Stone lyrics
In the Midnight lyrics
Back On Top lyrics
When the Leaves Come Falling Down lyrics
High Summer lyrics
Reminds Me of You lyrics
New Biography lyrics
Precious Time lyrics
Golden Autumn Day lyrics
Twist And Shake lyrics
Shake And Roll lyrics
Stomp And Scream lyrics
Scream And Holler lyrics
Jump And Thump lyrics
Drivin' Wheel lyrics
Just Ball lyrics
Shake It Mable lyrics
Hold On George lyrics
The Big Royalty Check lyrics
Ring Worm lyrics
Savoy Hollywood lyrics
Freaky If You Got This Far lyrics
Up Your Mind lyrics
Thirty Two lyrics
All The Bits lyrics
You Say France And I'll Whistle lyrics
Blow In Your Nose lyrics
La Mambo lyrics
Nose In Your Blow lyrics
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Want A Danish lyrics
Here Comes Dumb George lyrics
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Do It lyrics
Hang On Groovy lyrics
Goodbye George lyrics
Dum Dum George lyrics
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The Wobble lyrics
Wobble And Ball lyrics
Ordinary People lyrics
Wonderful Remark lyrics
Not Supposed to Break Down lyrics
Laughing in the Wind lyrics
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Contemplation Rose lyrics
Don't Worry About Tomorrow lyrics
Try For Sleep lyrics
Lover's Prayer lyrics
Drumshanbo Hustle lyrics
Twilight Zone lyrics
Foggy Mountain Top lyrics
Naked In The Jungle lyrics
There There Child lyrics
John Henry lyrics
Flamingoes Fly lyrics
The Street Only Knew Your Name (in album The Philosopher's Stone) lyrics
Joyous Sound (in album The Philosopher's Stone) lyrics
I Have Finally Come To Realize lyrics
Stepping Out Queen Part 2 lyrics
Street Theory lyrics
Real Real Gone (in album The Philosopher's Stone) lyrics
Showbusiness lyrics
For Mr. Thomas lyrics
Crazy Jane on God lyrics
High Spirits lyrics
Bright Side Of The Road lyrics
It Takes a Worried Man lyrics
Lost John lyrics
Going Home lyrics
Good Morning Blues lyrics
Outskirts Of Town lyrics
Don't You Rock Me Daddio lyrics
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Midnight Special (in abum The Skiffle Sessions - Live In Belfast) lyrics
Dead Or Alive lyrics
Frankie & Johnny lyrics
Goodnight Irene lyrics
Railroad Bill lyrics
Muleskinner Blues lyrics
The Ballad of Jesse James lyrics
I Wanna Go Home lyrics
The Story of Them lyrics
Don't Start Crying Now lyrics
Gloria (in album The Story of Them) lyrics
Philosophy lyrics
One Two Brown Eyes lyrics
Baby Please Don't Go lyrics
Here Comes The Night lyrics
One More Time lyrics
Little Girl lyrics
I Gave My Love A Diamond lyrics
Go On Home Baby lyrics
My LIttle Baby lyrics
Mystic Eyes lyrics
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If You And I Could Be As Two lyrics
I Like It Like That lyrics
Just A Little Bit lyrics
I'm Gonna Dress In Black lyrics
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 lyrics
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Bright Lights Big City lyrics
Baby What You Want Me To Do lyrics
I'm Gonna Dress In Black (alternate mix) lyrics
One More Time (alternate stereo mix) lyrics
Little Girl (alternate version) lyrics
How Long Baby lyrics
(It Won't Hurt) Half As Much lyrics
Something You Got lyrics
Call My Name lyrics
Turn On Your Lovelight lyrics
I Put A Spell On You lyrics
Bad Or Good lyrics
I Got A Woman lyrics
Out Of Sight lyrics
It's All Over Now Baby Blue lyrics
Hello Josephine lyrics
Don't You Know lyrics
Hey Girl lyrics
Times Gettin' Tougher Than Tough lyrics
Stormy Monday lyrics
Friday's Child lyrics
Richard Cory lyrics
My Lonely Sad Eyes lyrics
I Can Only Give You Everything lyrics
Could You, Would You lyrics
Richard Cory (alternate version) lyrics
Call My Name (alternate single version) lyrics
Lets Talk About Us lyrics
You Win Again lyrics
Jambalaya lyrics
Crazy Arms lyrics
Old Black Joe lyrics
Think Twice Before You Go lyrics
No Way Pedro lyrics
Shot of Rhythm and Blues lyrics
Real Gone Lover lyrics
Why Don't You Love Me lyrics
Cadillac lyrics
Baby You Got What It Takes lyrics
Boogie Chillen lyrics
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