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Here are the meanings.
Come Little Children / I'll take thee away / Into a land of enchantment
The singer is luring children. Not to death, but to safety.
Come Little Children / Times come to play / Here in my garden of shadows
I believe the children are lost in a dark forest with danger all around, and the "garden of shadows" is a safe clearing tucked away.
Follow sweet children / I'll show thee the way / Through all the pain and the sorrows
"The pain and the sorrows" are the dark depressing nature of the woods, naturally scaring them.
Weep not poor children / For life is this way, / Murdering Beauty and Passions
I believe now she is comforting one of the children who may have had a nightmare, possibly about the death of a loved one.
Hush now my children / It must be this way / Too wary of life and deception
She's explaining the way of the forest, and how you can never be too careful
Rest now my children / For soon we'll away / Into the calm and the quiet
"The calm and the quiet" refers to the meadow outside the forest by the children's homes.
And then the chorus repeats.
Most of this is my own interpretation, but the first time I heard this was in "Children of the Night" by Duo Cartoonist.
Here are the meanings.
Come Little Children / I'll take thee away / Into a land of enchantment
The singer is luring children. Not to death, but to safety.
Come Little Children / Times come to play / Here in my garden of shadows
I believe the children are lost in a dark forest with danger all around, and the "garden of shadows" is a safe clearing tucked away.
Follow sweet children / I'll show thee the way / Through all the pain and the sorrows
"The pain and the sorrows" are the dark depressing nature of the woods, naturally scaring them.
Weep not poor children / For life is this way, / Murdering Beauty and Passions
I believe now she is comforting one of the children who may have had a nightmare, possibly about the death of a loved one.
Hush now my children / It must be this way / Too wary of life and deception
She's explaining the way of the forest, and how you can never be too careful
Rest now my children / For soon we'll away / Into the calm and the quiet
"The calm and the quiet" refers to the meadow outside the forest by the children's homes.
And then the chorus repeats.
Most of this is my own interpretation, but the first time I heard this was in "Children of the Night" by Duo Cartoonist.