Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Too serious to fool
Foundationed deep somehow
A self-ordained professor's tongue
Equality, I spoke the word
Too noble to neglect
I'm younger than that now
I had something to protect
Ripped down all hate, I screamed
Unthought of, though somehow
Is just equality in school
"We'll meet on edges soon" said I
Ahh, but I was so much older then
Good and bad, I define these terms
At the mongrel dogs who teach
From phony jealousy
Using ideas as my maps
Of ancient history
I'm younger than that now
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Deceived me into thinking
Ahh, but I was so much older then
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
As if a wedding vow
Spouted out that liberty
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
I'm younger than that now
Mutiny from stern to bow
I'm younger than that now
Romantic facts of musketeers
To memorizing politics
Lies that life is black and white
Girls' faces formed the forward path
Proud 'neath heated brow
Quite clear, no doubt somehow
Ahh, but I was so much older then
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Ahh, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that, now
My existence led by confusion boats
In the instant that I preach
Ahh, but I was so much older then
Ahh, but I was so much older then
