Prodigal Child

I used to lie in the long grass
And watch the world go by,
As a child my world was happy
Only people made me cry.
And if the sun had never set
I wouldn’t have gone home,
The moments I remember
Were the times I spent alone.

I owned castles in the sky
And horses that could fly,
They’d take me there on golden wings
To a place where no one cried.
I go back there for a while
And always know that I’ll
Be welcome there,
A Prodigal Child.

When I grew up they told me
There were no castles in the sky,
And I should not imagine things,
It was wrong to tell a lie.
If I worked and studied hard,
Climbed the ladder of success,
Then money and its power
Would ensure my happiness.

So busy counting what I’d made
I didn’t count the cost,
And things I thought I needed
Weren’t missed when they were lost.
With all the knowledge I had gained,
After all the things I did,
I realized I had it all
When I was just a kid.

I owned castles in the sky
And horses that could fly,
They’d take me there on golden wings
To a place where no one cried.
I go back there for a while
And always know that I’ll
Be welcome there,
A Prodigal Child.

This is the only novel with a title song, as far as I know