25-02-2013, 11:35 PM
Nice song and Video Rick.I'm glad you added the lyrics at the link.I think I'll just post them up here.
CHILDHOOD'S END
The pain flashed like a headline
Thrown upon the magic screen
A thousand days, a single flame
One instant in between
A camera's prayer of silence
Frozen church to grassy knoll
One single act of violence
Robbed a country of its soul
We tuned in as the colors dropped
The day when all the laughter stopped
They change the guard
The decades bend
A dream dies hard at childhood's end
The children weep
Old men pretend
The tide runs deep at childhood's end
The future made its promise
But our youth was double-crossed
A war of fear, a failed Frontier
One dream forever lost
A destiny abandoned
And an innocence betrayed
A piece of every one of us
Died in that motorcade
CHILDHOOD'S END
The pain flashed like a headline
Thrown upon the magic screen
A thousand days, a single flame
One instant in between
A camera's prayer of silence
Frozen church to grassy knoll
One single act of violence
Robbed a country of its soul
We tuned in as the colors dropped
The day when all the laughter stopped
They change the guard
The decades bend
A dream dies hard at childhood's end
The children weep
Old men pretend
The tide runs deep at childhood's end
The future made its promise
But our youth was double-crossed
A war of fear, a failed Frontier
One dream forever lost
A destiny abandoned
And an innocence betrayed
A piece of every one of us
Died in that motorcade
A thousand days, ten thousand nights
We all were in the killer's sights
They change the guard
The decades bend
A dream dies hard at childhood's end
The children weep
Old men pretend
The tide runs deep at childhood's endWe search to find a symbol
That the ages can't dilute
A lifeless oath, a ruined dress
One tiny son's salute
Forgetful minds remember
Though the pictures peel and crack
The day our childhood went away
And never quite came back
A nation's fate in one blind shot
It closed the gates of Camelot
They change the guard
The decades bend
A dream dies hard at childhood's end
Our children weep
Old men pretend
The tide runs deep at childhood's end
Copyright 2013 Rick Ryan
We all were in the killer's sights
They change the guard
The decades bend
A dream dies hard at childhood's end
The children weep
Old men pretend
The tide runs deep at childhood's endWe search to find a symbol
That the ages can't dilute
A lifeless oath, a ruined dress
One tiny son's salute
Forgetful minds remember
Though the pictures peel and crack
The day our childhood went away
And never quite came back
A nation's fate in one blind shot
It closed the gates of Camelot
They change the guard
The decades bend
A dream dies hard at childhood's end
Our children weep
Old men pretend
The tide runs deep at childhood's end
Copyright 2013 Rick Ryan
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.â€
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller