However, it wasn’t until years later that the song was actually complete.

“It would take me years to finish this song years of anguish and survival.”

“Life was a winding road, and I learned many things little ones shouldn’t know.

Mariah Carey smiles with straight hair

But I closed my eyes, steadied my feet on the ground, raised my head to the sky.

And though times rolled by, still I feel like a child as I look at the moon.

… Maybe I grew up a little too soon,” the song continued.

Mariah Carey smiles with curly hair