Only Child

Larry Hill wrote 'Only Child' back in 1975.

This version of the song was composed on his home computer in 2012. The video was created in December 2024.

"Investing you with all her charms,
Your mother held you in her arms.
Kept you warm and safe from harm,
Her love a soft and gentle psalm.

As she would often testify,
Come along late you were the apple of your daddy's eye.
He was the sweet, indulgent kind,
As fathers can be with their only child.

Only child, oh, lonesome you,
You've got your memories but you don't have roots.
Too many dreams for them all to come true,
But perhaps the better times are coming soon.

Oh, to live in a golden cage,
Where all the world is a golden stage,
With love and laughter on every page,
Oh, don't you wish you were half your age?

But those days are gone, left you behind,
Alone to wonder at the plight of all mankind,
And the songs of yesterday that had them blind
To the sorrows that tomorrow had in mind.

Only child, oh, lonesome you,
You've got your memories but you don't have roots.
Too many dreams for them all to come true,
But perhaps the better times are coming soon.

You give it all but you never make demands.
Whenever I'm in trouble you're the first to understand,
And you never ask for more than that I should be your friend.
Only friends.
Maybe you should close your eyes and count to ten.
What's gonna happen then?

In the evening, come the twilight,
Whisper my dreams, it's gonna be all right.
You are that fairy tale ending I've always been after.
I can hear the silver dancers, Julia in your laughter.

Only child, oh, lonesome you,
You've got your memories but you don't have roots.
Too many dreams for them all to come true,
But perhaps the better times are coming soon."