Memories of a lost child

What I wouldn't do to go back
Back to days full of Innocence 
finding happiness in the smallest things

The games of a pretend world
running along forbidden walls
The secret shrines, the hidden base  
Wadding through streams believing they were stormy seas

Up in the mountains of hidden mystery and magic
Believing anything possible behind the city lights

This I left behind 
Headed to a strange world of reality 
This which I knew not of
For I was a child 
Living in the forbidden walls of a pretend world

Now I'm here 
Trying to leave a pretend world behind
A child disappearing with memories of an old life

It pains me to return
To dust off a picture in a solid oak frame
Untouched by time 
Memories flooding back 
A key to a pretend world once again in sight