Childish Faith

Verse 1

Plastic army soldiers, scattered on the floor

Jagged dreams of yesterday, lost in the corners

Hands sticky with sugar, sunlight skipping the shade

On broken pavement, we chased what ran away

Faded chalk ghosts, blue and gold

Ashen laughs dissolving under growing cold

Once

Just once

I held the world small, everything bright

Tiny feet stumbling through fields of light

Chorus

We were running, running, running from the shadows

Lungs full of hope, never knowing sorrow

Eyes wide for wonder, nevermore hollow

We were running, running, running from tomorrow

Post-Chorus

Childish faith never fades

Childish faith never fades

Verse 2

Crimson autumns, tangled hair caught in wind

Trains rumbling somewhere—far from where we've been

Anaphora of never, repeated every hour

Counted wishes falling from the crooked tower

Mom called us home

But we hid in tall grass

Silent as the secrets we had to let go

Chipped teeth and knuckles, scraped by stones

Inventing new worlds, then leaving them hollow

Chorus

We were running, running, running from the shadows

Lungs full of hope, never knowing sorrow

Eyes wide for wonder, nevermore hollow

We were running, running, running from tomorrow

Bridge

Rusty swings, dusk descending, endings coiled tight

Trains are still rumbling—always out of sight

All my lost hours, spinning in the dusk

All my old hopes, lining up as dust

Verse 3

Maybe I remember, maybe I invent

The friends I lost, the days I never spent

Anaphora again—so I repeat the lines I know

Little hearts, heavy with sun

Little memories, dying one by one

Chorus

We were running, running, running from the shadows

Lungs full of hope, never knowing sorrow

Eyes wide for wonder, nevermore hollow

We were running, running, running from tomorrow

Post-Chorus

Childish faith never fades

Childish faith never fades

Outro

Nevermore

Nevermore

Silent lawns remember

Nevermore