Lyrics to
Child

This version of Child was released by Free in 1972.

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Child you’re talking of freedom
Painted on your garden wall
It’s not there at all
Child you’re talking of wisdom
You say wisdom is a golden rule
You ain’t no fool
But you don’t know who it is
Who calls you name
In the light of the golden moon
You don’t know who it is who brought you here
And chained up your heart
So soon

Child you’re life is a fairytale
And it’s not the same
And the clouds
You’re hiding behind
In your misty mind have disappeared
Like a sailor far from the shores of your dreams
And far from the love of your home
Sailor lost on your own misty seas
And the chains on your heart, baby
Might be my love
Might be my love

It’s so confusing
And you feel that you’re loosing yourself
But, there over the mountain
You thought you’d never have to climb
There’s a road
Reaching and stretching
To the corner of your mind
Like a river casts aside the dust
And grows and grows as it flows
The feeling deep inside of you
Must break like a dam
So set you free
So set you free
So set you free

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Child, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Free. Some of the lyrics to Child have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Free and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Child if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Child" means the words set to the music of Child, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Free. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Child and the lyrics to Child are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Free who came here looking just for the lyrics to Child, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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