Iron Maiden - Age of Innocence lyrics

I can't be compromising in
My thoughts no more
I can't prevent the times my
Anger fills my heart
I can't be sympathising with a new lost cause
I feel I've lost my patience
With the world and all

And all the politicians and
Their hollow promises and all the lies
Deceit and shame that goes with it
The working man pays everything
For their mistakes
And with his life too if there
Was to be a war

So we only get one chance can we take it?
And we only get one life can't exchange it
Can we hold on to what we have?
Don't replace it
The age of innocence is fading
Like an old dream

A life of petty crime gets
Punished with a holiday
The victims' minds are scarred
For life most everyday
Assailants know just how much
Further they can go
They know the laws are soft
Conviction chances low

So we only get one chance can we take it?
And we only get one life can't exchange it
Can we hold on to what we have?
Don't replace it
The age of innocence is fading
Like an old dream

You can't protect yourselves
Even in your own home
For fear of vigilante cries the
Victims wipe their eyes
So now the criminals
They laugh right in our face
Judicial system lets them do it, a disgrace

Despondent public worries where it
All will end we can't protect ourselves
Our kids from the crime trend
We cannot warn each other of
Evil in our midst
They have more rights than us
You cannot call that just

So we only get one chance can we take it?
And we only get one life can't exchange it
Can we hold on to what we have?
Don't replace it
The age of innocence is fading
Like an old dream

The age of innocence is fading
Like an old dream