Experience

Album: In a Glass House (1973)
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  • 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 realize the folly of these unripe years.

    Now I am a man, I realize
    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.

    Once I could rebel and consequences then had no reflection
    And I am a man, And I am bound by adult age discretion now. Writer/s: DEREK VICTOR SHULMAN, KERRY CHURCHILL MINNEAR, RAY SHULMAN
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Unison Rights S.L.
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