Childhood's End? Lyrics - Marillion

And it was morning. 

And I found myself mourning, 

for a childhood that I thought had disappeared. 

I looked out the window, 

And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone 

I'm not alone, I turned to the mirror, 

I saw you, the child, that once loved. 

The child before they broke his heart, 

Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost. 

Hey you, surprised? More than surprised, 

To find the answers to the questions, 

Were always in your own eyes. 

Do you realize that you give it on back to her? 

But that would only be retraced in all the problems that you ever knew, 

So untrue. 

For she's got to carry on with her life, 

and you've got to carry on with yours. 

So I see it's me, I can do anything 

And still the child, 

Cause the only thing misplaced was direction 

And I found direction. 

There is no Childhood's End. 

There is no Childhood's End. 

Cause' you are my childhood friend. 

Cause' you are my childhood friend. 

Oh lead me on. 

Hey you, you've survived. 

Now you've arrived, 

To be reborn in the shadow of the magpie. 

Now you realize, that you've got to get out of here. 

You've found the leading light of destiny, 

Burning in the ashes of your memory. 

You want to change the world. 

You'd resigned yourself to die a broken rebel, 

But that was looking backward. 

Now you've found the light. 

You, the child that once loved, 

The child before they broke his heart. 

The heart, the heart that I believed was lost 

So it's me I see, I can do anything. 

I'm still the child. 

Cause the only thing misplaced was direction, and I found direction. 

There is no childhood's end. 

There is no childhood's end. 

There is no childhood's end. 

I am your childhood friend. 

Oh...lead me on.