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On Children
Damien Rice
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Your children
Are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself
They come through you
Not from you
Though they are with you, they belong to themselves
You may give them your love but not your thoughts
For they have thoughts for their own
You may house their bodies but not their souls
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams
(Uh, uh, uh, uh)
(Uh, uh, uh, uhuh)
(Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh...)
You may strive
To be like them
But seek not to make them like you
For life goes
Not backward
Nor tarries with yesterday
You are the bows from which your children
As living arrows
Are sent forth
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite
And he bends you
With his might
That his arrows
May go swift and far
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(Uh, uh, uh, uhuh)
(Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh...)
(Uh, uh, uh, uh)
(Uh, uh, uh, uhuh)
(Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh...)
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness
For even as he loves the arrow that flies so he loves the bow that is stable
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness
For even as he loves the arrow that flies so he loves the bow that is stable