Now You Know Better

Can you remember when you were just six years old?

With a trusting heart accepting everything you're told

Anyone bigger must have been right even if they were wrong

You'd take what is 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 pay for your innocence?

And you'd take what was given, you didn't know better about

Loving, cheating, people leaving

Dying, living, losing and forgiving

Growing, saying no and being who you are

What about the time when you became sixteen 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

So you'd take what was given, you didn't know better

All that you could think about was what you should or should not do

Every single insecurity was magnified for you

Then suddenly you began to feel all the contradictions

But you'd take what was given, you didn't know better about

Loving, cheating, people leaving

Dying and living, losing and forgiving

Growing, saying no and 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's one precious thing you've learned

Is that you can't just take what is given and now you know better about

Loving, cheating, people leaving

Dying and living, losing and forgiving

Growing, saying no and being who you are