Experience Songtext
von The Walker Brothers

Here′s to Emily, old age and Emily
Here's to the people who live in a shell
Here′s to Emily, one more for Emily
One for the road where pedestrians dwell

So self-assured, complacent and bored
Our hero opens a box on the shelf
Containing advice so worldly and wise
Welcomes his children to help themselves

Here's to Emily, old age and Emily
Here's to the people who live in a shell
Here′s to Emily, one more for Emily
One for the road where pedestrians dwell


He hasn′t time for riddle or rhyme
Too busy fighting machines at the plant
He married young; his past is his pocket
Beginnings and endings escape from this ant

Here's to Emily, old age and Emily
Here′s to the people who live in a shell
Here's to Emily, one more for Emily
One for the road where pedestrians dwell

Baptized, materialized, no time to realize
Caught in the current and drowned in the well
Then about fifty, stubborn and empty
Hands out the world for his children to sell

Here′s to Emily, old age and Emily
Here's to the people who live in a shell
Here′s to Emily, one more for Emily
One for the road where pedestrians dwell


Here's to Emily, old age and Emily
Here's to the people who live in a shell
Here′s to Emily, one more for Emily
One for the road where pedestrians dwell