Inspirational music for kids only
If you’re reading this you’re either under 14 years of age or still attached to the child inside.  Perhaps you’re just curious.  Perhaps you’re a voyeur – wanting to look back on that special innocence of childhood.  Perhaps you’re like me – a little weary of all the adult responsibilities in life and just wishing to be free of it all on this fall Saturday afternoon.

To go out and roll in the leaves.  Or play ball and sweat and not even think about it staining your shirt.

So you’re here for a little check-back.  Well, it’s OK to stay but just remember…

We don’t allow no cats
We don’t allow no dogs
We don’t allow no wombats
It’s just for kids only

We don’t allow no dentists
We don’t allow no cows
We don’t allow no physicists
It’s just for kids only

That’s right, we’ll let you stay and play, but you have to be one of us.

You can be short
You can be shy
You can be black or white
You can be square
You can be cool
Just as long as you are a kid
You rule

Are you even aware of that?  That you rule the earth?  Man thinks that he rules the earth because he’s the strongest, but times have changed from those bash-‘em-over-the-head-with-your-club days.  Now, man is not even second in the pecking order.  He’s third – the bronze medal.  Actually kids rule.  Today they’re getting away with just about everything.  (Including most of the music in the record business — :o)

Also I’ve noticed that we parents will do just about anything for our kids – including giving up our own lives.  They are that precious a commodity – more valuable than diamonds, more precious than gold.  So kids, you’re on top whether you know it or not.  Just don’t be in such a hurry to grow up.  You think you gain power by being an adult, when actually, the truth is, you lose it.

The second most powerful being on earth is, of course, the beautiful woman.  I used to think they were, in fact, the most powerful until I became a father.  Then I understood the real facts of life.

But a beautiful woman…  Ah…, now that is power.

But I’m getting off the point.  The real point is:

We don’t allow no sharks
We don’t allow no snails
We don’t allow no aardvarks
It’s just for kids only

We don’t allow no rattlesnakes
We don’t allow no parents
We don’t allow no fruitcakes
It’s just for kids only

Now I know that the life of a kid ain’t always hunky dory.  In fact sometimes I’m just shocked at how mean they can be to each other.  Where’d they get that?  How did they know to treat each other that way?  It’s amazing what you pick up in life by just keeping your eyes open.

But anyway, just this time only, you can join us.

You can be fat
You can be tall
You can be off the wall
You can be rich
You can be poor
Just as long as you are a kid
You’re secure

When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up.  Each step, each ensuing year brought new freedoms – and new responsibilities.  Like I couldn’t wait to drive a car.  That meant freedom.  But then my dad made me pay for my own car insurance, so most of the time when I drove, I drove to a job or to school.  Boy did I miss those great school bus rides.  Back then I had my own driver.

We don’t allow no congressmen
We don’t allow no dweebs
We don’t allow no aliens
It’s just for kids only

We don’t allow no cop cars
We don’t allow no bugs
We don’t allow no movie stars
It’s just for kids only

Back then I couldn’t wait to move out from under the watchful eyes of my mom and dad.  But then I found that I had no one watching me, cheering me on, worrying about me, teaching me.  Suddenly I was on my own.  What I thought I wanted, I got.  Watch out what you wish for – you just may get it.  Sometimes I wonder – was I stupid or what?

You can be wise
You can be blind
You can be any kind
You can be blue
You can be green
Just as long as you are a kid
You’re supreme

Ah, to be supreme… To get up in the morning and be Superman or perhaps this morning, a cowboy, with a gun, and shoot people! – and not even get into trouble for it.  To change my mind in the afternoon and be Stan Musial out on the baseball field or Vladimir Horowitz at my piano practice.  And then, in the evening to crawl up into my dad’s lap and just be me – and dad.  And listen to his stories, and dream his dreams and giggle at his weird imagination…

We don’t allow rhinoceros
They take up too much room
Besides they’re too darn odorous
This blog’s for kids only

Yes it’s for kids only
It’s just for kids
On-
Ly!!!

So yeah, I guess you can stick around, but…  What’s that you say?  You have to go do your taxes?  Too bad.  I was going to watch the Yankee game.  Maybe it’s best you go do that.  Besides…

We don’t allow no lawyers
We don’t allow no geeks
We don’t allow no geezers
It’s just for kids only

You can be dumb
You can be smart
You can be off the chart
You can have hair
You can have scales
Just as long as you are a kid
You prevail

Maybe next time you can stay for a while longer.  But next time you have to wear that funny nose and the shirt with all the blue palm trees on it – and no pants!  Hah!

Oh yeah, don’t forget.  Bring the catcher’s mitt.

(so like I said)
We don’t allow rhinoceri
They don’t behave indoors
They won’t applaud and that is why
This blog’s for kids only

For Kids Only is a song written and performed by inspirational music artist, Peter Link.  You can find, listen and purchase this song and many like it if you’re interested in a return to the child in you by clicking the following link at WatchfireMusic.com.

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