Lyrics to
Child Of Innocence

Released by Kansas in 1975
From the Album: Masque |

This version of Child Of Innocence was released by Kansas in 1975.

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Sweet child of innocence
Living in the present tense
Father Time will take his toll
Rack your body and steal your soul
What became of all the years
Are you drowning in your tears
Who will catch you when you fall
Who will hear you when you call

I will comfort you, take your hand and see you through
I will take you through the door

Who do you think you are
Try to live forever and you won’t get far
I wait behind your door
Makes no difference if you’re rich or poor
Though you’re weary and afraid
Still you try to flee my blade
Come and walk in my new land
If you’ll only take my hand

In the image of those who have walked before me here
I am cast in the web of an ancient spell
I am holding on to life, I’m drifting in the stream
Everything’s much clearer now
We live within a dream and never wake

Judge not by what you see
More than you can count are here with me
Give up your foolish pride
All that walk the earth have died!


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Child Of Innocence, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Kansas. Some of the lyrics to Child Of Innocence have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Kansas and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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You can understand the lyrics to Child Of Innocence 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 Of Innocence" means the words set to the music of Child Of Innocence, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kansas. 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 Of Innocence and the lyrics to Child Of Innocence are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kansas who came here looking just for the lyrics to Child Of Innocence, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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