-1   2-2’   -3    22  -2’-2   -1

When I was young, lying in the grass

-1 2   -2’ -3   2 2 -2’ -2   -1 

I felt so safe in a warming bath

-3  -3”  3

Of sunlight

2  -2’ -2

Of sunlight

-1  -1   2 -2’ -3   2  -2’ -2   -1

The vast open sky could do no harm

 -1  2  -2’ -3   2  2 -2’ -2   -2

Like an embrace of  a mother’s arms

-3  -3”  3    2  -2’ -2

In sunlight, in sunlight [2x]

 -1   2 -2’ -3   2    -2’ -2  -1

With every year that came to pass

 -1    2     -2’ -3   2   2  -2’  -2   -2

More clouds appeared til the sky went black

-3   -3”   3 -3  -3”  3    2  -2’ -2

And there was no sunlight, no sunlight. (x2)

2 -1 -1

anymore.

-1   -4  -4 -3 -3” 3   -3”   -1

It disappeared at the same speed

-1  -1 -4 -4 -3 -3”   3   -3” -1  -1

As the idealistic   things I believed

 -1   -1 -4 -4 -3  -3”  3 -3”  3 -3 -3” 3

When the optimist died inside of meeeeeee

-3  -3”  3   2  -2’ -2

No sunlight, no sunlight (x2)

[REPEAT THIS VERSE ONCE MORE]

-3  -3”  3    2  -3  3

no sunlight, no sunlight.

-3  -3”  3    2  -2’ -2

no sunlight, no sunlight. (x2)

-3  -3”  3

No sunlight,

2 -1 -1

anymore.