Songs of Innocence And Experience lyrics

[SEBASTIAN]
What is innocence, exactly?
Is it ever unattractive
Do the people who are innocent
Think their innocence
Makes them better than the people who have lost their innocent bliss?

Hey, are you following this?

[LISA]
And at what expense
Does innocence become experience?
Let us all commence
To celebrate our lives
Sometimes achievers
Busy as beavers
Might look back and say:
"Hey, Dad, look what I built today!"

[SEBASTIAN]
What's experience exactly?
Is it simply earned by living?
Do the people with experience
Need to understand
That a life that's richened
By experience becomes
More unforgiving

[LISA] And at what expense Does innocence become experience? What's the consequence When something new gives way? For example, this building How much music it will bring I cannot say But Dad, look what we built today

[SEBASTIAN] What expense What's the consequence When something new gives way? This building How much music it will bring I cannot say But Dad, look what we built today

[LISA & SEBASTIAN] What expense   experience all commence To celebrate our lives Ooooh Ooooh Ooooh But Dad, look what we built today   Today Today Today

[BACKUP] And at what expense Does innocence become experience? Let us all commence To celebrate our lives And to honor this building How much music it will bring We cannot say But Dad, look what we built today   Today Today Today