SpaceGhostBones - I Was A Child Lyrics

Everything changed me
I was a child
Alive and innocent
I was a child
Open and unfinished
I was a child
Alone and diminished
I was a child
Wounded
Wounded

I was 17
I found my worth
Through someone else's eyes
I thought love
Was to give myself
Over
To someone else
To forget yourself
Suffering if it meant
That they were
Happy

I was 19
And I learned
To love myself
And so
I loved myself
Like I believed
Everyone
Should love me
And they did
Because I did
And I loved them
Too
And it was
Beautiful

I was a child and
Everything changed me
Everything changed
Everything changed me
Everything changed
I was a child
I was a child

I was 21
And I was certain
That happiness
Did not exist
Because I allowed myself
To love again
And it burned
It burned

I was living
Like love
Wasn't real
And then I was reminded
By the death of my mother
That even though it hurts
Love is real and its worth it
And I learned that
Love gives power
To build
And
To destroy
And I learned
To be careful

Everything changed me
I was a child
Alive and innocent
I was a child
Open and unfinished
I was a child
Alone and diminished
I was a child
Wounded wounded

I was 24
And I thought
True love was perfection
It was living in harmony
Perfectly
Compromise is key
Regardless of cost or loss
Because life couldn't get
Any better than
Perfectly perfect
And we were both
Certain

But
Behind the curtain
We were already
Secretly hurting
But couldn't admit
As that would be flirting
With the idea that
Maybe perhaps
We were actually
Imperfect
And so

I was married
Everything changed me

I was 28
And I learned
That sometimes love
Is not enough
That compatibility and trust
Matter just as much
That no matter how well
You explain your pain
And no matter
How they claim
To understand it
Sometimes
They simply
Cannot

Everything changed me
I was a child
Alive and innocent
I was a child
Open and unfinished
I was a child
Alone and diminished
I was a child
Wounded wounded
Everything changed me
Everything changed

I was 28
And I learned
That if your pain
Cant be understood
Neither can you
And I learned
That love
Is ever changing
And infinite

Everything changed me
Everything changed
Everything changed me
Everything changed me