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         Goodbye to Childhood

         and the dreams of yesterday

         and goodbye to the dreamer

         who got lost along the way

         and goodbye to you my dear

         I know you won't shed a single tear

         but that's to be expected

         from a dream that disappeared

Now the house is burnin'

see the ashes fly

standin' out in the street

watchin' all the memories die

And the Neighbors all stand gawkin'

watchin' the fire burn itself out

as for me I knew the ending

the horror's gone and I am free

A Policeman walked up to me

Says, "Hold it right there."

"Turn around put your hands behind you

You know the trial will be fair

They called it murder a killin'

in the first degree

but...

They say I am crazy

and they locked me behind these walls

and sometimes i can hear them

when they walk down the halls

maybe they know the reason

why I did what i had to do

for when you destroy a man's dreams

you destroy his reason too

So Goodbye to Childhood

and the dreams of yesterday

and goodbye to the dreamer

who got lost along the way

and goodbye to you my dear

I know you won't shed a single tear

but that's to be expected

from a dream that disappeared