This Child Lyrics

Check on your child

He's up here, all by his lonesome

He hopes someone will come

You wanted one and now it has begun

Won't you check up on your child

He's growing, right through his clothes

Tugging on the tails of your coat

Dragging on you everywhere you go

It's a project all the while to have a child

It's a back-breaking mile to reach down and grab this child

Is your mind still on your child

He's too heavy now for you to hold

He does not what he's told

You never knew a child to grow so old

Set him back down

On a journey between childhood and man

You've done all that you can

He was eating from the palms of your hands

It's a project all the while to have a child

It's a back-breaking mile to reach down and grab this child

It's a project all the while for one so infantile

It's a back-breaking mile to reach down and grab this child