Childhood's End
Pink Floyd Lyrics

You shout in your sleep.
You can’t rest well and during your sleep, you cry out loud or get abrupt shakes.

Perhaps the price is just too steep.
Maybe the effort demanded to carry-out future decisions is too high and you are concerned about the outcome.

Is your conscience at rest If once put to the test?
When your morality is in question and you have to make a decision that carries great consequence, what will you do?

You awake with a start To just the beating of your heart.
You suddenly awaken from a dream or slumber to find a still and calm environment.

Just one man beneath the sky, Just two ears, just two eyes.
As an individual, under an infinite sky, all you have is your senses: the ability to hear, the ability to see, and no one else.

You set sail across the sea Of long past thoughts and memories.
You traverse the sea of your own thoughts and memories of the past, which are difficult to confront.

Childhood's end, your fantasies Merge with harsh realities.
After adolescence, you perceive the world differently - you begin to realize the world isn’t perfect and your ideas of what you want in life merge with the painful reality of the world.

And then as the sail is hoist, You find your eyes are growing moist.
As you journey to adulthood and face new challenges, you become understandably emotional, even tearful from time-to-time.

All the fears never voiced Say you have to make your final choice.
You have the instinct to let your fears remain masked, however, somedays you just need to take a leap of faith and make a decision that will change everything.

Who are you and who am I To say we know the reason why? s
It is hard to understand life and the world it is built on - it is ambiguous, open to interpretation and no one can really know the absolute answer.

Some are born; some men die Beneath one infinite sky.
Despite any differences in life, the truth remains that at the end of it all we all join in the same eternal sky.

There'll be war, there'll be peace. But everything one day will cease.
The human cycle is an active sequence that rotates spheres of disruption and peace, though one day it will all come to an intangible end.

All the iron turned to rust; All the proud men turned to dust.
The grand structures that we honor today, built by noble people that once lived, will decay and be forgotten as time continues forward.

And so all things, time will mend. So this song will end.
Time will remain long after everything else has gone and through it all, it will heal us. One day this song will also come to an end.