Crimson flames
Tied
Through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on
Flaming roads
Using ideas as
My maps
We'll meet on edges
Soon said I
Proud 'neath heated brow
But I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

Half-wracked prejudice
Leaped forth
Rip down all
Hate I screamed
Lies that life is
Black and white
Spoke from my skull
I dreamed
Romantic facts of
Musketeers
Foundationed deep
Somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

Good and bad
I define these terms quite clear
No doubt
Somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

Girls' faces formed the forward path from phony jealousy
To memorizing politics of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists, unthought of, though somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now
A self-ordained professor's tongue too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty is just equality in school
"Equality, " I spoke the word as if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now