Listen & feel · 5 min 4 sec
Back To The Child
Come down here. Look through my eyes.
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Behind the song
A song from the child’s imagined point of view.
Adult conflict can hold reasons, memories and hurt. A child can still experience it most simply as pressure, distance and sides.
Back To The Child asks us to come down to the child’s height for a moment—not to erase what happened, but to keep the child free to love, belong and be themselves outside the adult fight.
After listening
Come down to their height.
What does this situation look and feel like from my child’s height?
What can stay in the adult world so the child has more room to love, belong and be themselves?
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Intro
Everybody has a reasonEverybody has a sideBut come down here for a minuteAnd look through my eyes
Verse one
You remember every sentenceEvery promise, every lieYou remember where it startedWho was wrong and who was rightThere are things you’re still defendingThings you’re trying to explainBut I don’t know the whole storyI just know when something changed
Pre-chorus
I don’t know who started itI don’t know who crossed what lineI just know the people that I loveDon’t feel the same when they’re fighting in my mind
Chorus
Come down hereLook through my eyesI don’t see your reasonsI just feel the sidesI don’t need to know who deserves the blameI just need to know I’m allowed to love you without feeling ashamedSo before the hurt becomes my worldBefore your wounds become my voiceCome back downBack to the child
Verse two
Two front doorsA bag between themDifferent words in different homesLearning what I’m safe to mentionLearning what I leave aloneMaybe you can see the differenceBetween your story and my ownYou might see somebody leavingI might just see someone I love who isn’t home
Pre-chorus
You might know why everything happenedMaybe every reason’s trueBut none of that can tell youWhat it feels like being me and loving you
Chorus
Come down hereLook through my eyesI don’t see your reasonsI just feel the sidesI don’t need to know who deserves the blameI just need to know I’m allowed to love you without feeling ashamedSo before the hurt becomes my worldBefore your wounds become my voiceCome back downBack to the child
Bridge
I know you have your reasonsI know you’re hurting tooBut I should never have to prove how much I love youBy loving someone lessI shouldn’t have to read the room before I say a nameI shouldn’t have to carry what the grown-ups couldn’t changeI’m not asking you to forget what happenedI’m not asking who was rightI’m asking you to see what all of this looks likeFrom my height
Final chorus
Come down hereLook through my eyesForget the adult story for just one moment tonightI don’t need a winnerI don’t need a sideI need somewhere safe for every part of me to still be mineBefore the hurt becomes my worldBefore your wounds become my voiceCome back downCome back downBack to the child
Outro
There are a thousand places your hurt could take youBack to the storyBack to the fightBack to being rightBut if you ever lose sight of what all this is forCome down hereLook through my eyesBack to the child