Experience lyrics

Artist  : Gentle Giant 
Song : Experience



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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 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.  
 
Once I could rebel and consequences then had no
reflection  
And I am a man, And I am bound by adult age
discretion  
now.