Wicked Child

Eisley

This life
It's just a place in my mind
Through the window I find I can stop time

'Cause dreams are crawling all over my head,
and you have those beautiful eyes
But I am a wicked child


Now with my head in the clouds
I'll sit here and burn, I will burn


You're Poseidon, and I'm dyin'
with my teeth on your smile
I walk my feet on your mile
With my eyes, I'll follow you up the trees
I'll be the birds and the bees,
from my prison that I can't leave


Now with my head in the clouds
I'll sit here and burn, I will burn


Save me, I'm not crazy, I just fell through the
ground and now things are upside down

(Merriment)

Wait for a minute
Just don't toss me away
I'll be down in the trees, just begging you please
My hands in my pockets, my feet growing long
in the way the vine grows strong
Hold me high
Hold me high tonight
I won't lie to you, don't lie to me

Now with my head in the clouds I will sit here
and burn, I will burn
Save me I'm not crazy, I just fell through the
ground, and now things are upside down


Lyrics submitted by canek, edited by TheFireKite

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    My Interpretation

    She's in love with him. So is he with her, but he's physically somewhere else right now. She is waiting for him, but it's torturous. He is somewhere beautiful and her surroundings are not so much. She dreams, with her head in the clouds, of the two of them being together... so much to the point it makes her 'seem' crazy... but really she is just in anguish from the waiting, the yearning... he feels the same way but isn't experiencing it as she is because she is more so the one waiting behind for his return... or at least until they can live somewhere else together at last.

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