Adultness
(Johan Bengtsson)
You may call it childish
Like playing with toys
But after all
Weren’t we boys?
Back then we had fun
At least for a while
When you sat alone
Too afraid for a smile
All your make-up and parfume
Your body complex
All those magazines
Telling how to get sex
So think for a moment
Have you or I lost?
If you’re looking back
And count the cost
Have I won?
Or have I lost?
Growing up
May seem so easy
But is it fair
Just to release it?
Why take the step?
Why go so fast?
Your adultness
Will anyway last…
Why can’t children be children
Before they grow up?
You imagined to late
It had been better to stop
Where you were
When you were a girl
A little one
But you chose to twirl
Run run run
Run away
That is the philosophy
Of the world today
But when we’re old
And looking back
It seems so hard
To face the fact
Have we won?
Or have we lost?
Growing up
May seem so easy
But is it fair
Just to release it?
Why take the step?
Why go so fast?
Your adultness
Will anyway last…
Tell me now what’s bad
With my childishness
Or do you still believe
In the adultness
If you do
You’re following the stream
If you don’t
Well, enter the scene
Come with me
Some day we’ll see
A new philosophy
It’s called
CHILDISHNESS
Growing up
May seem so easy
But is it fair
Just to release it?
Why take the step?
Why go so fast?
Your adultness
Will anyway last…
…or will it?
Credits:
Johan Bengtsson (vocals, keyboard, programming)