There's not one of us alive who can't remember The first time we ever walked into the gates To meet our tutors and our future's all on the same day Our successes and failures who could anticipate All of our parents' hopes and love will with us on that day And all our destinies just stretching away into infinity
All the people, all the shouting, all the problems and excitement The subjects and the possibilities we never knew All the big guys, all the new friends, all the tears and all I laughed at The master's gone, the corridors, the screaming bells that all the rush off school We were all an unwritten page upon that day We had fears but the years just let them melt away We became a part of the universal On our first day at school
There's not one of us alive who won't remember The day the kids and ... walked into their fate Into the hands of people who'd had their own fragile begins Just years before but somehow never could it quit And all of the parents' hopes and love within that day But future friends all life itself will plod away On the day those bastards broke the last taboo On our first day at school