The Man I Was - Show Of Hands

Now I might look familiar

But inside I’m not the same

And if you can’t see beneath

You’re not to blame

'Cause you still fear what I became

And I’m not denying

That you were flying

Ah, the man I was

He would have dragged you down

The man I was

He would have seized your crown

So all these years have taught me

There is always a second chance

Its forgiveness that I seek

And not romance

I’m only stretching out these hands

'Cause when danger found you

With wild wolves around you

Oh the man I was he would have gone to ground

You were in your tidal wave

With no mast or mainstay

And the man I was

He would have let you down

The man I was

He would have watched you drown

When darkness fell with storms around

The main I was just played the clown

Where drinking in some bar in town

I was no tender stanger

No desert ranger

No sturdy farmer

No knight in armour

I played the clown

I pulled you down

I watched you drown

I seized your crown

The man I was

The man I was

It’s over now it breaks my heart because

The man you see is not the man I was