I was thirteen years old With a looming grey cloud Of smoke on the skyline I didn't know what it meant For us or for them I just knew that something Bigger was coming our way Twenty years have flown by I suppose And what we have to show For them the devil only knows In the world we made In those dumbstricken days What a world to bring you into My smiling and sweet little girl Who will you turn To in a withering world? So fractured and frenzied And falling apart May it spare the foundations Of your delicate heart They say that kids these days Are growing up fast Faster than we thought we might Have been in the past So we're building our borders high And we're harking back to days When the loneliness inside Us didn't feel this way Oh sweet delicate child May you find beauty In the rugged and the wild In a world so fractured And falling apart May it spare the foundations Of your delicate heart I pray you live well and live long Show me I'm just old and tired And teach me I'm wrong With all that's left in me I'd do anything to see you Build your spirit stronger than mine Build your spirit stronger than mine Just build your spirit stronger than mine