Like A Child
Sweet Water Lyrics

The song "Like A Child" by Sweet Water is one of the most emotional and powerful songs that deals with the concept of death. The lyrics start with the singer asking his father not to come to see him and to remember him as he used to be. He believes that his father's friends must be so upset and wonders what his father will say now that he's gone. In the chorus, he requests people to remember him as a child and the person he was, who could still smile all of his troubles away. The singer then expresses his feelings about not wanting to hear anything else and how he wished his father had said whatever he had to earlier before it became his problem. He sees his body drying in the sun and wonders whether he's just another one.

The lyric "Daddy, don't come see me" reflects how the singer is trying to spare his father the pain of seeing him in his current state. The words "All your friends must be so upset" suggest that the singer is not looking for sympathy, rather he is concerned about how his death will impact those around him that he loves. The request to remember him as a child means that he wants to be remembered for a time when he was at his purest and happiest without any of the pain and sorrow of adulthood. Finally, the lyric "smile it all away" defines the singer's belief that you can smile away your troubles and worries.