I love the first line "When I was a child, everybody smiled." It captures how people depict the world as such a happy place to children but are actually feeling pain all along. This line almost questions where these smiles went, since now she is not a child and nobody is smiling anymore. It also seems to show the sadness at seeing who people actually are once you're old enough to not be treated with smiles always. She liked the world better when everyone smiled at her and wonders why the world isn't as happy a place as it seemed like. What a great song.
I love the first line "When I was a child, everybody smiled." It captures how people depict the world as such a happy place to children but are actually feeling pain all along. This line almost questions where these smiles went, since now she is not a child and nobody is smiling anymore. It also seems to show the sadness at seeing who people actually are once you're old enough to not be treated with smiles always. She liked the world better when everyone smiled at her and wonders why the world isn't as happy a place as it seemed like. What a great song.