Wilhelmina Lyrics - Hammill Peter

Willie, what can I say to you to hold true in 

your changing life? You've come into a cruel 

world : little girls can lose their way in the 

growing night ----- I hope you'll be alright. 

Willie, try to stay a child sometime, for as long 

as you feel you can learn. Babies all turn to 

people, and people can really be strange : they 

change and, changing, bring pain. 

Try to treat your parents well because they care, 

and what more can you do? 

When you find your lovers, be good to them as 

you hope they'll be to you ------ 

be honest, 

be true. 

Willie, you are the future; all our lives, in the end, 

are in your hands. Life's hard now --- you know, 

it gets harder, and hope is but a single strand; 

we pass it on and hope you'll understand.... 

We know that we do it wrong, we're not so strong 

and not so sure at all; groping in our blindness, 

we may seem big now but, really, we're so small 

and alone and searching for a home 

in the night. 

Meanwhile you're still a baby; you'll be a lady 

soon enough and then you will feel the burn. 

So hold my words : people all turn to children, 

spiteful children, and they're really so cruel... 

cruel fools! 

Just follow your own rules ------- 

don't think that I'm silly, Willie, 

if I say I hope that there is hope for you.