Like a Child - Niklas Linzer

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child So far from home This was life and this was safer All was strange and always stranger I laid awake but so much later I'm never safe from all this danger The demon's eyes and demon satyr I was bait but what would bait her? Don't know my needs, don't know my ways so I hide my face, no way to face her This was loss, this was name This was my truth, this was no game This was not hope, this was not sane And from these broken places made That was loss and this was later I wanted less but nothing greater I couldn't leave, I couldn't stay Like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child So far from home This was loss and this was later Always hate but never hate her I laid in wait but so much later And never safe from all this danger The demon's eyes, the demon satyr I was bait, but what would bait her Don't know my needs, don't know my ways so I hide my face, no way to face her This was loss, this was name This was my truth, this was no game This was not hope, this was not sane And from these broken places made That was loss and this was later I wanted less but nothing greater I couldn't leave, I couldn't stay Like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child So far from home So far from home

Well, just because I'm in my teens And I still go to school Don't think that I dream childlish dreams I'm nobody's fool Don't mother me - that makes me wild And please don't treat me like a child It's often said that youngsters should be seen and not be heard But I want you to realize that is quite absurd Don't wanna be so meek and mild So, please don't treat me like a child Gonna be my own adviser 'Cause my mind's my own Then I will be much the wiser My opinion of you has got to be known The best years of my life I know are those when I am young And since I'm sure that this is so Gonna have my fun So, if I feel like running wild Well, please don't treat me like a child Gonna be my own adviser 'Cause my mind's my own Then I will be much the wiser My opinion of you has got to be known The best years of my life I know are those when I am young And since I'm sure that this is so Gonna have my fun So, if I feel like running wild Well, please don't treat me like a child Don't ever treat me like a child

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child Sometimes I feel like a motherless child A long, such a long way from home Sometimes I feel like I'm almost, almost done Sometimes I feel like I'm almost, almost done Sometimes I feel like I'm almost, almost done And I'm a long, long, long way from home A long way is from home A long way is from home Do believe us, A long ways from home A long ways from home True believer, true believer True believer, true believer I'm a long, long, long Lord I'm a long, long, long I'm a long, such a long Way from home