The Girl Inside, from a specific version of the musical Peter Pan. If you know what version I'm talking about, then you probably live within 10 minutes away from me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l__nQVep6Ps
Lyrics, 'cause you won't find them anywhere online:
No more stories,
Give me what I know is true.
I need something
More than what they tell you to
Believe when you're a child,
In the nursery room upstairs,
I know life is more than just
Porcelain dolls and teddy bears.
I don't know yet
What maturing really means.
Could it be that
Once you reach your early teens,
The lord above will guide your heart?
Perhaps that's when I'll see
Growing up is not that bad,
It's just the way it's meant to be.
More than make believe!
Once you've finally grown,
Will there be a need
Once I've learned the things I've never known?
No more pretending,
I'll be moving on.
If I become a woman,
Does that mean the girl inside is gone?
Could it be that,
I'm more grown up than I seem?
As I lay me
Down to sleep, perhaps I'll dream
Tonight of what my life would be,
Should I remain this age.
Would my story reach the end
If I never turn the page?
Knowing what I know now,
Plus a little more.
The me that I will be tomorrow,
Who is she, what's in store?
Sitting here, basking in
The moonlight of the evening,
Warm inside the covers of my bed.
Do I want to leave this?
It's not an easy choice!
I can't see the answers with these questions in my head!
I'm going back to bed.
More than make believe,
That is what you are!
You'll be on my mind
Every time I see a shooting star.
No more pretending,
Children must move on.
But Peter, I've discovered
It doesn't mean the girl inside is gone.