Child of the Wind

Child of the Wind

I can feel your pain.

I’ve been lost out in the rain

But it was never something

I chose for me.

How can you ask me

To stand beside you

And ease your empty heart

When comes the dawning

In the early morning,

I know you’ll be on your way

Leaving your trail of broken hearts

And broken minds behind you?

You’re a child of the wind

Ever restless, never content.

Do you really believe you belong nowhere

Not even among those who were left behind?

No, I go where the light is warm.

I stay where the home fires are burning

Where love awaits every turning.

It’s true maybe I don’t fit in.

Maybe I don’t belong.

Maybe there will always be something wrong.

But it doesn’t really matter

Because when love came calling

I was wide open and ready.

I wasn’t going to stand outside your gate.

Trying to pick the lock

Over and and over and over again.

I don’t know what you’re hiding

Don’t know why you’re riding.

Seems to me that you carry a ghost inside you

That can never let you rest, never let you love.

Each new lover can never satisfy your hunger

Like a vampire, you seduce and sway

Take a victim’s blood away

And then return to the dark mists

Of nowhere and nothing.

Until you dare to care

Open your heart

You’d best beware,

For you will wander the night

Forever—a child of the wind.

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