Lyrics

Can you remember when you were just 6 years old? With a trusting believing everything you're told? Anyone bigger must have been right Even if they were wrong You'd take what was given You didn't know better All your little mind could comprehend was goodness and truth Even when the baddest things were being done to you Ain't it a shame how you paid for your innocence When you take what is given You didn't know better 'bout... Loving, cheating, people leaving Dying, living, losing and forgiving Growing, saying, knowing Being who you are What about the time when you became 16 years old? With an unsure heart believing some of what you're told? Wanting to be someone different But there's pressure to be the same Still you'd take what was given You didn't know better All that you could think was what you should or should not do Every single insecurity was magnified for you And suddenly you begin to feel All the contradictions But you take what was given You didn't know better 'bout Loving, cheating, people leaving Dying, living, losing and forgiving Growing, saying, knowing Being who you are Now here you are a little older than before You've really been through it and you might go through some more But if there is one precious thing you learn It's that you can't just take what is given 'Cause now you know better