Magic Is A Child Lyrics
A NEKTAR composition!
Dawn the Minstrel
Distant Runner
Turn the Handle
Mystic Wonder
Fire turn the ore into steel
Chariots of Thor turn your wheels
Away from Asgard his hammer needed in the
North
The warring people will know his power and his
Force.
Trees burning skys fiery red today
Wheels turning winds coming back again
Bless the seeds that we sow help them grow
Wheat covered fields into bread keep us fed
Well work in the sun til it's done
Not giving up til we've won
Oktoberfest Celebration
The harvests in the winters coming
Streets alive with people dancing
Music fills the air
Alpine horns through valleys echo
Months of toil turn to leisure
Aged lines sun parched faces
Now to be released
Down on your knees hide your eyes
Light like a hole in the sky
Fire turning ore into steel
Chariots of Thor turn your wheels
Away from Asgard his hammer needed in the
North
The warring people will know his power and his force
Trees burning skys fiery red today
Wheels turning winds coming back again
Dawn the Minstrel
Distant runner
Turn the handle
Mystic wonder
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At the time I was a little boy
All my senses were in bloom
The forests were adventure
There dwelt the legends of my mind
I was the keeper of the golden key
I made all the rules
I only had to dream to create the scene
Magic is a child
Imagination is alive
Magic is imagination
A child is alive
How the trees were so high
The cheese in the sky
Were part of my imagination
I was goblins and elves
With small mushroom shelves
As Brothers Grimm would tell their stories
Opening my eyes in the morning I would see
Patterns in the trees making shapes that were a
Face to me
In those tireless times
And those carefree lines
That we draw ourselves
But they're never kept
I know magic is a child
Imagination is alive
Magic is imagination
A child is alive
Magic is a child
Imagination is alive
Magic is a child
Alive as a child's imagination
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Rolling away
Riding the rails in the night
Rhythm in steel
Turning a song in my head
Over and over
Repeats the refrain
Stop, look, seems strange
Years begin to fall away
Seasons all change
Leaves are green then brown again
Wind through my hair
Closing my eyes in the breeze
Senses unreal
Changing the thoughts in my head
Over and over
As were swept away
Spook like fascination
There wont be no hesitation
Stretching out imagination
This may be an innovation
Speed of light
Eerie time and space train
We've got her up to full steam
While traveling unseen
Were 200 years from the start
*repeat
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Out the door
Down the dusty village streets
Cobbles bright
And burning hot under my feet
The shops open their goods displayed
Beginning of the business day
Schmidt the bakers late today
The old folks chat the day away
Hark the sound of distant city bells
As they find their way through
Forests deepest dells
Passing through the everglades
I look across the glistening lake
Through reeds and flowers frogs at play
I see atop the green array
A waterfall so magical
I climb aboard the mystic ship
And cast the line away from shore
I sail towards the liquid roar.
I find, behind the roaring waterfall
A place where the
Midnite, midnite lites the water, water
And its falling, falling
Midnite midnite lites the water, water
And its falling, falling
Midnight lite its only water falling down
Hold until you dream your way
Down the dusty village streets
Dream your dreams
Cobbles hot under your feet
Midnite midnite lites the water water
And its falling
Midnite lite it's only water falling down
Hold onto your dreams.
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(keep your worries behind you)
Son: My father said son you are much older now
Times come when I think its too late
the shoes that I wore have long since walked away
I hope that you'll learn from all of my past mistakes.
Keep your worries behind you
Watching the sand pass thru an Hourglass
painting the blue in the skies
Dream away I hear him say
Father: But keep your worries behind you so
You can see what's before you
Lay my slippers by the fireside making
this our home as long as were together
Remember the guiding lines
That I taught you now
And keep your worries behind you so
You can see what's before you
Son— since you are older now
it's not too late to begin
There's no doubt about your life
Father Just keep your worries behind you
and Son so you can see what's before you
Son: I see all of my years they are before me now
I know its not too late now lets begin
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In a 747 or the Santa Maria
The new world is the focus of the
Foreigner's dreams
Takes to the sea he takes to the skies
Money he blows goes up his nose he won't care
He may arrive in New York or the Spanish steps
In Rome
He's a spirit looking harder for the place
He'll call home
New kingdom in the making though the odds
against hims high
In the splendor of the morning
He is now arriving at the platform someplace
on the train from nowhere
There is no one there to meet the stranger
But you'll see he wont care
Passing through the borders with a smile upon his face
He always has to slow down just to join the human race
Which takes him through his life at only twice the normal pace
And as soon as he's rested hell do it again
Now arriving at the platform someplace
Its the train from nowhere
There is no one there to meet the stranger
But you'll see he won't care
Passing through the borders with a smile upon his face
He always has to slow down when he joins the human race
Which takes him through his life at only twice the normal pace
And as soon as he's rested he'll do it again
Doesn't know when he won't care
(on the) train from nowhere
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Listen, to these thoughts as they drift away
Worried times
Can turn around all the things we do
Blinded
By veils we hang to avoid the truth
Searching for the times that we lose in youth
Listen
There is no light within my eyes
As darkness comes with no surprise
Shifting shadows on the wall
As night begins to fall
Times so hard hurts me deep inside
But life keeps on movin tho daybreak seems so
Far away
Listen
Listen can you hear me
Confusion takes me as I sing this song
Leaves me nothing to do but try again
Right or wrong you're gonna see a change in me
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Hey come on over come on in
Tell me how your life has been
Does it catch up on the run
Life is like the setting sun
Beautiful but then it's gone
Does it catch you on the run
Are yesterday's dreams all that's left on my mind
Nobody answers but the voice from inside
And it's so long since I had time for a phone call
It's been so long don't–cha know what I mean
Finding me someone to say
Tell me how you feel
Tell me that its real today
Does it catch you on the run
Hey I hear you're doing well
You must be working hard as hell
Does it catch you on the run
Then I hear music as rhythms revive
Am I still dreaming said the voice from inside
I'm working so hard I feel lazy in the morning
Always on call have to leave without a warning
And it's so long
Since I had you here to talk to
It's been so long don't–cha know what I mean
We will be always together
Finally someone to talk to
It takes me high in the sky
It takes me high in the sky
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You've left me screaming at the cellar door
You've got me begging let me have some more
You come so close you know it feels real nice
But look out babe I can be cold as ice.
Shake it babe I'll watch you do your thing
Goin' through the motions makes me want to sing
Don't tantalize me honey soon you'll see
That I'll be cruising you'll be loosin' me
Open up spread your wings let me have some more
Deny my honey I'll be walking out that door
Open up tried to leave couldn't find the key
Couldn't fight it do that thing that you do to me
You come too late to catch the early show
When I've got time you always have to go
Don't five and dime me no more song and dance
Step in line girl come on now's your chance
Choo choo choo baby train is leaving soon
Chu chu chugging just on your perfume
No use complaining time to realize
That you've been used just maybe once or twice
refrain
Open up spread your wings let me have some more
Deny my honey I'll be walking out that door
Open up tried to leave couldn't find the key
Couldn't fight it do that thing that you do to me
Cant fight it do that thing that you do to me
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Dawn the Minstrel
Distant Runner
Turn the Handle
Mystic Wonder
Let the dreams run wild and fearful as the fiery skies
burn down the layers of life to make walls of time grow week
Winds of Valhalla blow by
Light up the hole in the sky
Fire turn the ore into steel
Chariots of Thor turn your wheels
Away from Asgard his hammer needed in the north
The warring people will know his power and his force.
Trees burning skys fiery red today
Wheels turning winds coming back again
Bless the seeds that we sow help them grow
Wheat covered fields into bread keep us fed
We'll work in the sun til it's done
Not giving up till we've won
Oktoberfest Celebration
The harvests in the winters coming
Streets alive with people dancing
Music fills the air
Alpine horns through valleys echo
Months of toil that turn to leisure
Aged lines sun parched faces
Now to be released
Down on your knees hide your eyes
Warriors battle and die
A name in the place in the hall
Valhalla home of them all
Away from Asgard his hammer needed in the North
The warring people will know his power and his force
Trees burning skys fiery red today
Wheels turning winds coming back again
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