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If I Ever Was A Child Lyrics
I've never been alone
Long enough to know
If I ever was a child
I was tied up like a boat
Unbuttoned like a coat
Set free for a while
Well I jumped to jolt my clumsy blood
While my white, green eyes
Cry like a window pane
Can my cold heart change
Even out of spite?
I slump behind my brain
A haunted stain never fades
I hunt for the kind of pain I can take
And I cry like a window pane
Can my cold heart change
Over night?
So I won't ever want to touch
Your heart too much
Or hold you too tight
I slump behind my brain
A haunted stain will never fade
I hunt for the kind of pain I can take
I never was alone
Long enough to know
If I ever was a child
Long enough to know
If I ever was a child
Unbuttoned like a coat
Set free for a while
Well I jumped to jolt my clumsy blood
While my white, green eyes
Cry like a window pane
Can my cold heart change
Even out of spite?
A haunted stain never fades
I hunt for the kind of pain I can take
Can my cold heart change
Over night?
So I won't ever want to touch
Your heart too much
Or hold you too tight
A haunted stain will never fade
I hunt for the kind of pain I can take
Long enough to know
If I ever was a child
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A confessional song about somebody who has some kind of deep pain and trauma, probably from his childhood, unhealed and buried in his psyche somewhere. He knows it's there and he knows it makes him emotionally cold and unable to connect, haunting him. He carries it with him through life, like a heavy burden that cripples him on an inner level. He has to keep things at a certain distance, so that the pain doesn't get to be so much that he can't take it anymore.