Jon Anderson - Animation lyrics

When I was young I had thoughts of a kind that still linger Entwined with realities reasoning I'd sit on the hill side and look out far yonder, imagine I'd easily fly away To where? I don't know, But the imagery caught by my quick imagination would lift me My spirit to conquer a fall Well now let me tell you the simplest of stories We've all been through this moment And really we've all been through this birth All praise this glorious chance of life All praise this wonderous feeling too All praise this time we all go through This pain, this light, we bare so fast Rebirth at last And I wanted to be by my wife As she'd laboured and given The child a life, she the purest soul So I wanted to be by her side For the very first time I said For the full and simple reason Well I wanted it, well yes I did As a Mother and Father of innocence Gladly helping a child to this world There was more than relief on our minds It was like touching moments in History Not just for a memory With the help of those dear people Who could have thought for a better reason of just wanting to be there Who could have thought for a better reason of just wanting to be there Who could have thought for a better reason of just wanting to be there For the full and simple reason Well I wanted it, wanted it, wanted to be there Out in a whispering of time Can a Mother and Child love right away Mother and Father as their right accept a reason As the child's eyes that dream on and dream a life away So the moment I thought about release of life that comes on And how hopefully wise we become with each pa**ing day I wondered at this divine "Animation Of Life" As the moment her eyes opened wide I could see it was her first day Was her first sound Time had stood still Brought my knees to the ground The moment I saw the look in her eyes I knew I was captured by an angel in disguise And as I sit on that green covered hill long ago The memory of a deeper love inside me flows Oh - it comes and it pa**es through you Oh - it comes and it pa**es through you Tell me things that our fore fathers have tried I'll tell you there's nothing in life to touch the birth of a child, I want these words to linger on and on for I was there beside my loved one Oh tell me there is nothing like seeing the birth of a child So tell me the thought, the memory lingers so.