childlike

marked by innocence, trust, and ingenuousness

Heard in 41 songs (1165M+ combined views) — most famously in "Clint Eastwood" by Gorillaz.

Updated September 26, 2026

Songs Featuring “childlike”

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

Time: 1:54

The essence, the basics, without it, you naked

Allow me to make this childlike in nature

Rhythm, you have it or you don't, that's a fallacy

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

Ween - Ocean Man

Time: 0:32

Ocean man, the crust is elusive when it casts forth

To the childlike man

Ocean man, the sequence of a life form braised in the sand

Ween - Ocean Man

Aurora - Through the Eyes of a Child

Time: 2:14

Let them in before they go

I would rather feel alive with a childlike soul

With a childlike soul

Aurora - Through the Eyes of a Child

Kanye West - POWER

Time: 1:53

Got treasures in my mind but couldn't open up my own vault

My childlike creativity, purity and honesty

Is honestly being crowded by these grown thoughts

Kanye West - POWER

FKA twigs - Childlike Things

Time: 0:33

Where the wild things are, I will be

Lost in a world of childlike things and fantasies

Dun, dun, dun

FKA twigs - Childlike Things

mxmtoon - dream of you

Time: 2:00

You were the sugar to my sour

A sheer joy so childlike

And now I see you from a distance

mxmtoon - dream of you

For King & Country - Long Live

Time: 1:25

Step by step

With drop of faith and childlike wonder

For King & Country - Long Live

Amy Grant - Tennessee Christmas

Time: 0:30

Can't you hear the prayers

Of every childlike heart tonight?

Rockies are calling

Amy Grant - Tennessee Christmas

JT Music - This is the Last Night

Time: 3:03

You can bet I'm ready for the change yet to come

Why can I not recover my childlike sense of wonder?

I feel like I'm fallin' under a jaded and agin' slumber

JT Music - This is the Last Night

The Fireman - Sing the Changes

Time: 1:09

Sing the changes, any wonder

Feel the sense of childlike wonder

Sing your praises as you're sleeping

The Fireman - Sing the Changes

Yes - To Be Over

Time: 5:24

♪

Childlike soul dreamer

One journey, one to seek and see in every light

Yes - To Be Over

Hillsong Young & Free - Jesus Loves Me

Time: 0:12

But it changed my life

Just a childlike truth

That consumed my mind

Hillsong Young & Free - Jesus Loves Me

Coheed and Cambria - Everything Evil

Time: 4:01

Stay until Wednesday

And write me a childlike letter, pretending

At war here in Thursday

Coheed and Cambria - Everything Evil

Joy Division - From Safety to Where...?

Time: 0:27

♪

Through childlike ways rebellion and crime

To reach this point and retreat back again

Joy Division - From Safety to Where...?

Ariel Pink - One Summer Night

Time: 2:40

Better write these lines

Happy days of childlike bliss

All innocence and lies

Ariel Pink - One Summer Night

Azealia Banks - Tarantula

Time: 0:04

Frail is your body

A conscience re-designed to be childlike and bitter

Childlike and bitter

Azealia Banks - Tarantula

The Mamas & the Papas - Strange Young Girls

Time: 1:23

Holding and walking

Wisdom flows childlike

While softly talking

The Mamas & the Papas - Strange Young Girls

Johnny Cash - I Came to Believe

Time: 1:03

I came to believe that I needed help to get by

In childlike faith I gave in and gave him a try

And I came to believe in a power much higher than I

Johnny Cash - I Came to Believe

Moses Sumney - Keeps Me Alive

Time: 0:32

And the truth is I want the same thing that you do

Childlike curiosity about my fate

Is the only thing that makes me stay

Moses Sumney - Keeps Me Alive

Gov't Mule - My Separate Reality

Time: 0:22

Children in the playground, laughing and dancing in the street

All the colors of the rainbow - wrapped in childlike harmony

Me, I'm not laughing - I see things only as they were

Gov't Mule - My Separate Reality

Dark Tranquillity - Mind Matters

Time: 0:57

In perfect clarity

See the day in childlike vision

Where does it lead from here

Dark Tranquillity - Mind Matters

The Monkees - Sometime In The Morning

Time: 1:23

She's all a girl could be.

Now in her childlike eyes

You see the beauty there

The Monkees - Sometime In The Morning

The Animals - Riverside County

Time: 2:37

Wherever I go son

Oh baby, smile at me with childlike eyes

Oh baby, smile at me with childlike eyes

The Animals - Riverside County

Mark Knopfler - Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes

Time: 1:56

A note came through the letter box

In your childlike hand

Oh, laughs and jokes

Mark Knopfler - Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes

Silversun Pickups - Growing Old Is Getting Old

Time: 2:02

♪

Kept alive your childlike reaction time

♪

Silversun Pickups - Growing Old Is Getting Old

Van Morrison - In The Garden

Time: 2:47

Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

And you went into a trance, your childlike vision became so fine

And we heard the bells within the church, we loved so much

Van Morrison - In The Garden

Baxter Dury - Return Of The Sharp Heads

Time: 0:49

You total cunts

Childlike in every fucking way

Shit me up anyway

Baxter Dury - Return Of The Sharp Heads

Beth Nielsen Chapman - The Color of Roses

Time: 1:51

Everyone suffers some loss

Still we have faith in it, childlike hope

There's a reason that outweighs the cost

Beth Nielsen Chapman - The Color of Roses

Susan Ashton - Summer Solstice

Time: 0:58

It must have been my adolescence

That pulled me from my childlike faith

But what I thought to be maturity

Susan Ashton - Summer Solstice

Leeland - Falling for You

Time: 0:06

A childlike love I had

When we first began

Leeland - Falling for You

Jason Mraz - Childlike Wildlife

Time: 1:24

We dance, we dance, we play, we rant and rave

Oh, this childlike wildlife is flooring me

Oh, this childlike wildlife is flooring me

Jason Mraz - Childlike Wildlife

Hayley Westenra - Summerfly

Time: 1:02

When I was young

In the gentle world my childlike senses knew

And the world was just my cousin

Hayley Westenra - Summerfly

Bis - Tell It to the Kids

Time: 0:15

hairclips and screams used as deadly weapons.

childlike appearance used as decoy.

a warning to all saboteurs, 'be fooled and be dead'.

Bis - Tell It to the Kids

Ben Folds - Fragile

Time: 0:41

Afraid to confront you

When you're so childlike

You pull no punches and I absorb them

Ben Folds - Fragile

Bette Midler - Color of Roses

Time: 1:51

Still we have faith in it

Childlike hope

There's a reason

Bette Midler - Color of Roses

Aly & AJ - The Deep End

Time: 1:48

Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

I used to be joyful, a childlike echo down a hallway

Thought I needed nothing

Aly & AJ - The Deep End

Lisa Germano - Bad Attitude

Time: 5:55

and all your moves

were childlike

Lisa Germano - Bad Attitude

XTC - Frivolous Tonight

Time: 0:52

Tonight

Let's reveal our childlike nature

And leave our stocks and invoices to rot

XTC - Frivolous Tonight

Baby Jane - Head Full of Nightmares

Time: 0:37

Memories are slipping away (slipping away)

Blackouts between childlike play (childlike play)

I can't bring myself to say (myself to say)

Baby Jane - Head Full of Nightmares

Christopher Cross - Angry Young Men

Time: 1:29

Changing the best laid plans

Childlike, childish

I wish you could understand

Christopher Cross - Angry Young Men

Kid Cudi - Salt Water

Time: 1:08

Nobody's watching me

Dancing with childlike freedom

Awake, but still I dream

Kid Cudi - Salt Water