Old Men

Old men are filming all of their fantasies
As if they are telling us young women's stories

Young men die and women cry
Not because the boys are gone forever

Old men are sharing all of their regrets
As if they're showing us some womens'
  inner secrets

Young men die and women cry
Not because the boys are gone forever
The things they have to do just to get by
Would make any mind recoil in terror

Old men's power has grown used to defining
And leaving young girls' lives behind them

(Chorus, instrumental, half-chorus)

Old men funding screenplays with their fortunes
Placing women they pay down there for you

(Chorus)

Women are so raised on all these tales
They wonder why their own dreams feel
  so very strange

(Chorus)

Old men making up all of women's lives

2/7/26

© Huw Powell
printed 18 April 2026

file location: www.humanthoughts.org/old_men.htm

Old Men