Story Behind The Song
I wrote this song for an artist friend who was choreographing a dance piece.
Song Description
Childhood friends finding time to ask each other if they were still able to feel as free as they did when they were younger
| Song Length |
3:58 |
Genre |
Country - Americana, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Composed, Welcoming |
Subject |
Imagination, Freedom |
| Similar Artists |
Jonatha Brooke, Fiona Apple |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Did you know when you were younger
Trying to understand
What it meant when they said child
You're behaving out of hand?
Were you free to dream and wonder
Imagination child
Could you fly through rain and thunder
And chase the fire down?
Wild Wild Wild
Was it dark when you were dreaming
Asleep in childhood's bed?
Nightwinds blowing softly breathing
It blew inside your head
Sycamore and weeping willow
They held you in their arms
Down below the cerebellum
You felt it in your heart
Wild Wild Wild
They did not know how they shut down your soul
Now it's harder to know just how to begin
Walk down your road and you let go of more
Of the stuff that won't let you cross over again
Cross over again
We were very different then
Open possibilities
Something happened we grew up
To responsibilities
Was it time that made you tame,
Did our changes start to freeze?
Do you yearn for where you came,
When we slept beneath the trees?
Wild Wild Wild