Child - Peter Hammill

I don’t know quite what’s happening

And my eyes don’t see too clear;

All I know is I need you here

If only to shield me from the mood of the world

And hold me and say it doesn’t matter;

But I’m like a child whose dreams are shattered

Crowding round me, images of broken thought

Lines of my life now overgrown

All I can feel is I’m so alone

Without even your bright eyes to reach into my mind

And say that in my life I’ve done right

And I’m like a moonchild in the sunlight

So cast your thoughts upon me, wherever you are

That I may feel you close beside me

And hold your hand, for you to guide me

Through all these catacombs which freeze me with their touch;

Unknowing, knowing so much, my mind cries out

And I’m like a child when the light’s out

With a child’s fear of the dark…