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she asked him how he'd done it

how he'd built marshmallow towns

how he'd met a little poor boy

who was destined for the crown

she asked him how he know about

the language fairies speak

and how he'd caught a shooting star

that now was his to keep

she asked him how he'd touched the clouds

without a pair of wings

and how he'd heard the music

of a chestnut tree that sings

she asked him how he'd swum

right to the bottom of the sea

and how he'd watched a mountain cry

and heard the sunshine speak

she found it all a mystery

he breathed the air she breathed

but he breathed out tales of distant lands

and things she'd never seen

and she saw a world of wonder

when she looked up-close at him

and when he spoke his words flowed

like a poem on the wind

he told her that it hadn't been

some wings that helped him fly

and it hadn't been a net he'd used

to catch things from the sky

it wasn't maps that led him

to a chest of buried gold

and it hadn't been a ship that

sailed him halfway round the world

it wasn't bricks he'd used

too build a castle in the sky

for he told her he had lived

all of these things inside his mind

and he told her she could do it too

for reading's all it took

and she'd open up her world

if she just opened up a book