Can you give it back to me?

The floating paper boats in sea

The fading warmth of evening tea

Those days of sheer ecstasy

Can you give it back to me?

The wildest flower and honey bee

The wooden door and golden key

That maze of rolling mystery

Can you give it back to me?

That scent of books, oh so homey

Blissful ignorance of he and she

My forever pleasant eternity

Can you give it back to me?

The loving shade of cypress tree

The rising smoke of warm coffee

The tales of chaotic insanity

Can you give it back to me?

The brown swing, the bruised knee

Return to me, I have a plea

That hourglass holding infinity

No, you can't give it back to me

You thief, oh time! Hurt you be!

You took away my bliss, my 'ME'

The child in me, so wild and free