Innocence/Experience
/A song lyric, reflecting on innocence lost as experience is gained
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Hey, Diddle-diddle
The cat and fiddle
The cow jumped over the moon
A old story we’re told
In our sweet Mother’s arms
But our innocence’s lost far too soon
There’s Jack and there’s Jill
They’ve run up the hill
Just to fetch a pail of water
You stand up in the world
Only to fall down
Never sure if you’ll get what you oughter
Innocence
Experience
To one the other’s lost
Innocence
Experience
Is to know truly worth the cost?
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone
Like ants, we amass
The fruits of our work
Like the dog, we soon find, we have none
Bed knobs and broomsticks
And buttons and bows
Songs, memories, rhymes from our youth
Once we grow up
The wonders we’ve know
All just disappear with a “poof”
Innocence
Experience
To one the other’s lost
Innocence
Experience
Is to know truly worth the cost?
Why put away
The toys we have known?
Who says “adulting”
Is the way we must go?
Can we recapture
The spirit, the fun?
Just for a moment
Before our clocks run
Innocence
Experience
To one the other’s lost
Innocence
Experience
Is to know truly worth the cost?
By Mike Turner
From: United States
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