Experience Lyrics - Playing The Fool - Gentle Giant

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 

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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. 

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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