Gentle Giant - 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 formyself.The harmless affairs, and no-one seemed to care for anymeaningMy life was my own, The debt I paid, I paid it only tomyself.The unseeing youth, how can it be so shallow and short-sightedThese years passed me by, to realise the folly of these unripeyears.Now I am a man, I realiseMy unworldly sins pained many livesYet I heard, heard with ears that wouldn't listenAnd still I watched and I saw with blinkered eyes.But with age the conscience slowly dawns and bonds ofduty gently tiedAll my sins, seen through now there is experience andrecollecting act in virgin guise.Master inner voices, making the choices.Once I could rebel and consequences then had no reflectionAnd I am a man, And I am bound by adult age discretionnow