Lights- Pretend

Once in a while i act like a child to feel like a kid again
It gets like a prison in the body i'm living in
Cause everone's watching and quick to start talking, i'm losing my innocence
Wish i were a little girl without the weight of the world

It would be nice to start over again
Before we were men
I'd give, i'd bend, let's play pretend

Remember the times we had soda for wine,
and we got by on gratitude
The worst they could do to you was check your attitude
Yeah when fights were for fun, we had water in guns,
and a place we could call our own
How we lost hold of home i guess i'll never know

And when it's the end,
Our lives will make sense
We'll love, we'll bend, let's play pretend

My sister had this on her blog I thought it went really well with this song... I don't know if she wrote it or found it... but I like it.

Who doesn't wish we could go back to childhood, when days that lasted as many as twenty do now? Before fear, money, economics, lusts, and peers controlled our every motive, and thought. We never thought some of our closest friends would get pregnant, drink alcohol, or do drugs. When we thought we'd be best friends forever, and have nothing come between us. When drama was not being able to have slumber parties, or not getting invited to birthdays. Now it's losing virginity, sex, who has the coolest car, and who has the most attractive boyfriend. Unfortunately, childhood was a promise never kept. Now that we've all grown up, the colors that once painted our world, that lifted our hopes, that made darkness colorful is now gone. It seems as if growing up is a never ending plague, and the older we get the worse it seems. I wish I would have known then what I do now, and would have taken my time to enjoy my innocent days, and take my time to grow up.