From the recording Sometimes I Wake Up Naked

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First begun on September 4th, 2000. The song was inspired by an email I received on August 31, 2000. This song remains an audience (and personal) favourite.

Personnel
JIM LESSES (vocal & guitar); JOHN MUNRO (mandolin); DON HOLDERNESSE (bass guitar, saxophone, shakers); RICHARD TONKIN (accordion).

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Lyrics

I Want to be Eight Again

© 2000, Jim Lesses. All Rights Reserved.


I Want to be Eight Again, I want to be nine or ten,

I want to chase butterfly's under mountainous skies,

Collapse on the grass and then...

I want to be free of my troubles and woes,

I want to dirty my favourite clothes,

I want to lie on the ground; hear every sound,

Kick at the sky with my toes.



I want to be eight again, I want to be nine or ten,

I want to be just like a child, that is happy and wild,

Go back to that moment when...

Every day was a pleasure reborn,

When the world didn’t threaten and warn,

When the thoughts in my head, were for stories I’d read,

And lived out each day on the lawn.

I want to be eight again, I want to be eight again.

CHORUS

I want to live without any regrets,

Stop counting what everyone gets,

Act like a clown; spin ‘round and ‘round,

Follow the vapor of jets.

I want to be eight again, I want to be eight again.

I want to live without any regrets,

Stop counting what everyone gets,

Act like a clown; spin ‘round and ‘round,

Follow the vapor of jets...

I want to be eight again, I want to be nine or ten,

I want to sing out of tune, rhyme silvery moon,

With June or spoon, and then...

I want to shed all my covers and skins,

And remember when I had no sins!

Stop dragging my cross, forget profit and loss,

In a world where nobody wins!

I want to be eight again, I want to be eight again.

CHORUS

CODA:

I want to be eight again.
I’ll even settle for nine or ten.

I want to be eight again.