Crimson flames tied through my ears

Rollin' high and mighty traps...

Pounced with fire on flaming roads

Using i-deas as my maps...

"We'll meet on edges, soon said," I,

Proud 'neath heated brow...

Ah, but I was so much older then

I'm y oung-er 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.

Girl's faces formed the forward path

From phony jealousy,

To memorizing politics

Of ancient history.

Flung down by corpse evangelist

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 pathway 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 guards 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.