When I was 5 years old
I wished upon a star
Sprinkled a bit of fairy dust
Summoning him from afar
I begged and begged and wished and wished
That Peter Pan would come
And take me to Never Never Land
Where age was just a sum
Of all the years that came before
This place was but a dream
No fear, no pain, or sadness there
Merely a place to flee
The struggles of daily life were hard
And I wanted so badly to go
I begged and begged and pleaded to the sky
That Peter would have me in tow
When I was 23, thank God
My dream had finally come true
I found a place in the world just like
The Neverland I had come to know
Wild and free and open and wide
The desert called to me
I fell in love with the sand and the sky
I swore I would never leave
Years went by and I became one of them
The lost boys, they went by
I played and laughed and ran and sang
The real world rules did not apply
No commitment and no real plan
My life was by the wind
I tried and tried for 12 straight years
But I would never truly fit in
I tried to leave many a time
The vortex pulling me back
I drank the water from the natural spring
And that was my setback
There came a point where I realized
There is a time to grow up
We can be kids forever and ever
But will that fill us up?
Adventure and play and fun and sun
Those are all wonderful things
But all in all, and as it goes
We all must spread our wings
Into the unknown, I venture now
Hoping for so much more
Than the life I’ve lived as a friend of the lost boy
I know there is much in store
