Experience

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

And recollecting act in virgin guise

Master inner voices, making the choices

Master inner voices, making the choices

Master inner voices, making the choices

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