There's not one of us alive who can't remember
The first time we ever walked into the gates
To meet our tutors and our future's all on the same day
Our successes and failures who could anticipate
All of our parents' hopes and love will with us on that day
And all our destinies just stretching away into infinity

All the people, all the shouting, all the problems and excitement
The subjects and the possibilities we never knew
All the big guys, all the new friends, all the tears and all I laughed at
The master's gone, the corridors, the screaming bells that all [bad word] off school
We were all an unwritten page upon that day
We had fears but the years just let them melt away
We became a part of the universal
On our first day at school

There's not one of us alive who won't remember
The day the kids and ... walked into their fate
Into the hands of people who'd had their own fragile begins
Just years before but somehow never could it quit
And all of the parents' hopes and love within that day
But future friends all life itself will plod away
On the day those [bad word] broke the last taboo
On our first day at school