The Point of No Return

When we were children We knew nothing of this planet In the wood we’d build our dens Play war games with our plastic guns And cowboys and Indians Then I’d be the Lone Ranger Or Roy Rogers with Trigger, Sledging in the winter Swimming naked in the lake In the heat of summer Playing doctors and nurses With the girl next door We had no idea what to expect The world was an adventure A great big planet Waiting to be explored Yet, now we are grown, we find Life did not fulfil its promises None of us grew up to be astronauts Flying missions to Mars Zapping the alien horde With supersonic ray guns Saving mankind from annihilation So, we yearn for those simpler times Those happy carefree days A fabulous, magical time In the land of our imagination That wonderful world of our own Where anything was possible But, those years are gone Never to return Save in our dreams