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