Crayon Drawings are the Best After All

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I want to be shown some beauty again

'Cause all I've seen lately is sickness and sin.

I want to see light in the sky and on faces

I want to remember what sorrow erases.

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My life is so empty, so worthless, so hollow

There's no place I can go where my shadow won't follow

I just want to find out, and I just want to know

Where did all of the playgrounds and neighbor kids go?

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And I feel all grown up as I run off to college

But I don't think I'm wiser despite all my knowledge

As I'm getting older I'm starting to see

That the child was the best of the versions of me

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I just won't lay to rest all those ghosts and those dreams

I'm a woman who won't put away childish things

Because all of those memories of things that I did

Are the best that I have, I miss being a kid

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So somebody please show me good up ahead

And tell me I'll find it before I am dead

And bake me some cookies and smile me a smile

And sing me to sleep every once in a while

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And maybe, just maybe, when the moon's in the sky

And the glowing stars sparkle while earth's drifting by

Perhaps after prayer time when I say amen

Then maybe, perhaps I'll see beauty again.