Experience

[Chorus]

Here's to Emily, old age and Emily

Here's to the people who live in a shell

Here's to Emily, one for poor Emily

One for the road where pedestrians swell

[Verse 1]

So self-assured, complacent and bored

Our hero opens a box on the shelf

Containing advice, so worldly and wise

Welcomes his children to help themselves

[Chorus]

Here's to Emily, old age and Emily

Here's to the people who live in a shell

Here's to Emily, one for poor Emily

One for the road where pedestrians swell

[Verse 2]

He hasn't time for riddle or rhyme

Too busy fighting machines at the plant

He married young, his past is his pocket

Beginnings and endings escape from this ant

[Chorus]

Here's to Emily, old age and Emily

Here's to the people who live in a shell

Here's to Emily, one for poor Emily

One for the road where pedestrians swell

[Verse 3]

Baptized, materialized, no time to realize

Caught in the current and drowned in the well

Then about fifty, stubborn and empty

Hands out the world for his children to sell

[Chorus]

Here's to Emily, old age and Emily

Here's to the people who live in a shell

Here's to Emily, one for poor Emily

One for the road where pedestrians swell

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

Here's to Emily, old age and Emily

Here's to the people who live in a shell

Here's to Emily, one for poor Emily

One for the road where pedestrians swell