New blood joins this earth
And quickly he's subdued
Through constant pain disgrace
The young boy learns their rules
With time the child draws in
This whipping boy done wrong
Deprived of all his thoughts
The young man struggles on and on he's known
A vow unto his own
That never from this day
His will they'll take away
What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never be
Never see
Won't see what might have been
What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub thee unforgiven
They dedicate their lives
To running all of his
He tries to please them all
This bitter man he is
Throughout his life the same
He's battled constantly
This fight he cannot win
A tired man they see no longer cares
The old man then prepares
To die regretfully
That old man here is me
What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never be
Never see
Won't see what might have been
What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub thee unforgiven
You labeled me
I'll label you
So I dub thee unforgiven
Lyrics from Lyric Find.
Reflections
The song is about how we as people in a collective society seek to rid ourselves and others of what they are meant to do. We punish our children and teach them to be normal and the same as everyone else. We teach them to be what they are not meant to be. Here, the protagonist has led the same life ever since birth. He may have had a few characteristic traits of his own which have now been stripped away by constant punishment. Even when he grows up, there are others that are in control of his life and he tries to seek their approval instead of doing what we want to. As he grows old, he realises that he has many regrets about how he could not excel at what he was meant to do and instead stuck to doing what others wanted him to do. And for that, he blames the world and dubs them unforgivable.
