Your Childhood - The Proclaimers

From birth to five, you’re learning

From five to ten, you’re playing

By the time you’re fifteen, you’re never wrong

But then you turn around and it’s all gone, your childhood

Now daddy knows what he’s saying

You’re in my arms and I’m praying

That I’ll be given the strength and time

To make yours just as happy as mine, your childhood

Every morning, your crying ends my sleep

I kid on, I’m angry, but it’s not a feeling I can keep

There’s no light outside, I don’t care 'cos I know it’s true

That in our house the sun shines out of you

You’ve got your mother’s looks, you’re a beautiful little girl

You’ll break boys hearts all over this world

Then one day you’ll walk out the door

And I know you’ll break mine, you’ll break mine

From birth to five, you’re learning

From five to ten, you’re playing

By the time you’re fifteen, you’re never wrong

But then you turn around and it’s all gone, your childhood

So you’re trying to talk, any day now you’ll walk

You’ll be running around, make me act like a clown

'Cos I live and I breathe for my little girl, our little girl

The most important thing is this whole wide world

Now daddy knows what he’s saying

You’re in my arms and I’m praying

That I’ll be given the strength an time

To make yours just as happy as mine, your childhood