I Thought I Was A Child Lyrics - Bonnie Raitt

1 It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery

2 As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free

3 I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled

4 I thought I knew where I was going until I heard your laughter flowing

5 And came upon the wisdom in your eyes

6 Surprise--

7 I've spent my whole life running 'round

8 Chasing songs from town to town

9 Thinking I'd be free so long as I never let love slow me down

10 So lonely and so wild until you turned and smiled

11 By now I should have long been gone

12 But here I am still looking on

13 As if I didn't know which way to run

14 It's such a clever innocence with which you show myself to me

15 As if you know how it feels to never be who you wanted to be

16 I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled

17 I thought that I was free but I'm just one more prisoner of time

18 Alone within the boundaries of my mind

19 I thought I was a child