sharing with us what he knows his shining eyes are big and blue and all around him water flows this world to him is new this world to him is new to touch a face to kiss a smile and new eyes see no race the essence of a child the essence he s born to shimmer he s born to shine he s born to radiate he s born to live he s born to love teach him how to hate and true love it is a rock smoothed over by a stream and no ticking of a clock truly measures what that means truly measures what that means and this thing we call our time i heard a brilliant woman say she said you know it s crazy how i want to try and capture mine i think i love this woman s way i think i love this woman s way she shimmers the way she shines the way she radiates the way she lives the way she loves the way she never hates sometimes i think of all the deaths that can surround me i know it all as being mine then she kisses me and she wraps herself around me she gives me love she gives me time yeah yeah i feel fine hey yeah hey yeah but time i cannot change so here s to looking back you know i d drink a whole bottle of my pride and i d toast to change to keep these demons off my back just get these demons off my back cause i i want to shimmer and want to shine i want to radiate i want to live i want to love i want to try and learn now not to hate try not to hate we re born to shimmer we re born to shine we re born to radiate we re born to live we re born to love we re born to never hate 