Gentle Giant
The Runaway/Experience (Live)

[The Runaway]

[Spoken: Derek Shulman]
This album was called, er, In a Glass House

[Spoken: John Weathers]
(One, two, three, four, five, six)

[Verse 1: Derek Shulman]
He is the runaway, lie low the wanted man
Mask his elusive face, soon he will get away

[Chorus: Derek Shulman]
And free is his future, no more aimless time to spend
And evading, he's escaping four dirty walls and a bed
In a cage, his home no more

[Post-Chorus: Derek Shulman]
Run in the underwood, cover and hide the trail
Senses like sharpened sword, guards for the shadow on his tail

[Instrumental Break 1:44–2:47]

[Break: Derek Shulman & Kerry Minnear & Ray Shulman]
And yet, all his joy is empty and sad
[Instrumental Break 3:00–3:58]

[Experience]

[Verse 2: Derek Shulman]
Once I was a boy
An innocent to life and my role in it
This world played my game
And anyone a clown or foil for myself

[Verse 3: Derek Shulman]
Oh, unseeing youth
How can it be so shallow and short-sighted
These years passed me by
To realise the folly of these unripe years

[Instrumental Break 4:51–5:36]

[Verse 3: Derek Shulman]
Oh, unseeing youth
How can it be so shallow and short-sighted
These years passed me by
To realise the folly of these unripe years

[Instrumental Break 5:46–7:12]
[Chorus: Derek Shulman]
I master inner voices, making the choices
I master inner voices, making the choices

[Instrumental Break 7:30–8:47]
[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus: Derek Shulman]
I master inner voices, making the choices
I master inner voices, making the choices