Sorry for Our Innocence

Lyrics

You were such a small girl, when I used to stay In the dirt yards outside the factory I remember how we managed to sway In the hot shade of the concrete quay Where a rusted freighter pulled at its stays In the dirty backwater we hoped would take us away [Chorus] I'm sorry for our innocence But when I was a younger man I tried to be a kinder man A gentle man I tried to be a man of consequence A man of significance But when I left home, I left forever And nothing can change what chance has severed Can you still hear the bands that played in the square The steel drums, the starving dogs And the old women we'd see there? Those songs of future tense, that black beat of despair We were so unaware Of the empty words tossed in disrepair In the blasted air [Chorus] I'm sorry for our innocence But when I was a younger man I tried to be a kinder man A gentle man I tried to be a man of consequence A man of significance But when I left home, I left forever And nothing can change what chance has severed I remember late winter when the wind off the water Lifted your hair like a curtain for stars And I remember later summer, when the shouts in the night Lit up the hills, the harbor and bars With the glow of money not earned, and lessons not learned The glow of the badly burned By the politics of no return