Experience Lyrics
Once I was a boy, an innocent to life and my role in it,
This world played my game, and anyone a clown or foil for myself.
The harmless affairs, and no-one seemed to care for any meaning
My life was my own, The debt I paid, I paid it only to myself.
The unseeing youth, how can it be so shallow and short-sighted
These years passed me by, to realise the folly of these unripe years.
Now I am a man, I realise
My unworldly sins pained many lives
Yet I heard, heard with ears that wouldn't listen
And still I watched and I saw with blinkered eyes.
But with age the conscience slowly dawns
And bonds of duty gently tied
All my sins, seen through now there is experience
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And recollecting act in virgin guise.
Master inner voices, making the choices.
Once I could rebel and consequences then had no reflection
And I am a man, And I am bound by adult age discretion
Now.
