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Songs about Losing Innocence

How quickly we rush to rid ourselves of our own innocence, and how much we mourn for it when it's gone. These songs are about making that transition from wide-eyed idealism to seasoned realism. It's a tale as old as the Bible, since the second act of the creation story (in many religions) centers around partaking of the knowledge of good and evil.

There's all kinds of takes on this theme. Some count losing their innocence as a gain in enlightenment and a rite of passage. Others take the view that gaining wisdom for how the world works makes one less happy than they were before.

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  Adia Sarah McLachlan

  There’s no one here to blame
  There’s no one left to talk to, honey
  And there ain’t no one to buy our innocence
  ’cause we are born innocent
  Believe me adia, we are still innocent
  It’s easy, we all falter
  Does it matter?

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  Ain't It Fun Paramore
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  American Pie Don McLean

  But February made me shiver
  With every paper I'd deliver
  Bad news on the doorstep
  I couldn't take one more step
  I can't remember if I cried
  When I read about his widowed bride
  But something touched me deep inside
  The day the music died

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  Back When Tim McGraw

  Back when a hoe was a hoe
  Coke was a coke
  And crack's what you were doing
  When you were cracking jokes
  Back when a screw was a screw
  The wind was all that blew
  And when you said I'm down with that
  Well it meant you had the flu
  I miss back when
  I miss back when
  I miss back when

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  Bleeding Out Imagine Dragons
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  Butterfly Rajaton
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  Candles Daughter
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  Children Of The Sea Black Sabbath
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  Daddy Korn
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  Damaged Plumb
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  Death of a Hero Alec Benjamin
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  Everybody's Fool Evanescence
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  Extraordinary Girl Green Day
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  First Time Lifehouse
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  Foolin' Def Leppard
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  Free Fallin Tom Petty
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  Genie in a Bottle Christina Aguilera
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  Ghost Badflower
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  Ghost of Days Gone By Alter Bridge
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  Goodbye Blue Sky Pink Floyd

  Did you ever wonder
  Why we had to run for shelter
  When the promise of a brave new world
  Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky
  Oooooooo ooo ooooo oooh
  Did you see the frightened ones
  Did you hear the falling bombs
  The flames are all long gone
  But the pain lingers on

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  Hollywood Tonight Michael Jackson
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  Hurdy Gurdy Man Donovan
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  Innocence Shaman
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  Into the Night Benny Mardones
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  It's not Me it's You Skillet
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  Kristy, Are You Doing Okay? Offspring, The

  Oh, clouds of time
  Seem to rain on innocence
  Left behind
  It never goes away
  

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  Like a Virgin Madonna
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  Losing My Religion REM
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  Luka Suzanne Vega
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  Maggie May Rod Stewart
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  New Perspective Panic! At The Disco
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  Night Changes One Direction
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  Numb Linkin Park
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  O Children Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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  Open Your Heart Human League
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  Puff the Magic Dragon Peter Paul & Mary

  A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
  Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
  One grey night it happened, jackie paper came no more
  And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

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  Raspberry Beret Prince

  Built like she was
  She had the nerve to ask me
  If I planned to do her any harm
  So, look here
  I put her on the back of my bike
  And we went riding

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  Say It Right Nelly Furtado
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  Scream Avenged Sevenfold
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  Sister Christian Night Ranger

  Sister Christian
  Oh the time has come
  And you know that you're the only one
  To say O.K.
  Where you going
  What you looking for
  You know those boys
  Don't want to play no more with you
  It's true

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  Smooth Criminal Michael Jackson
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  Starting Over Audio Adrenaline
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  Strawberry Wine Deana Carter
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  Summer (The First Time) Bobby Goldsboro
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  Sweet Children Green Day
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  The A Team Ed Sheeran
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  The End of the Innocence Don Henley

  Offer up your best defense
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

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  The Headmaster Ritual Smiths, The
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  The Logical Song Supertramp

  When I was young
  It seemed that life was so wonderful
  A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
  And all the birds in the trees
  Well they'd be singing so happily
  Joyfully, oh playfully watching me
  
  But then they sent me away
  To teach me how to be sensible
  Logical, oh responsible, practical
  And then they showed me a world
  Where I could be so dependable
  oh Clinical, oh intellectual, cynical

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  The Suburbs Arcade Fire

  Kids wanna be so hard
  But in my dreams we're still screamin' and runnin' through the yard
  And all of the walls that they built in the seventies finally fall
  And all of the houses they built in the seventies finally fall
  Meant nothin' at all
  Meant nothin' at all
  It meant nothin

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  Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright) Rod Stewart

  Don't say a word my virgin child
  Just let your inhibitions run wild
  The secret is about to unfold
  Upstairs before the night's too old
  
  Tonight's the night
  It's gonna be alright

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  Wake me Up When September Ends Green Day

  Summer has come and passed
  The innocent can never last
  wake me up when september ends

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  Waves Dean Lewis
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  White Houses Vanessa Carlton

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