Hindsight

What is hindsight for? Is it a learning tool? Or is it just to have a laugh, And say you were a fool? What is hindsight for? Perhaps it’s to review? To rip apart the thing you’ve done, And have a go at you? What is hindsight for? It doesn’t right the wrongs, Or is it just a waste of time, To leave where it belongs? What is hindsight for? Just there to poke some fun, Determine when decisions, That were made were the wrong one? What is hindsight for? Just critical and cruel? To rub it in when you forget, The things you learned in school? What is hindsight for? To analyse each fact? To unpick every action, And to criticise each act? What is hindsight for? To re-evaluate? To say you should have not done that, And try to re-create? What is hindsight for? To attack each decision? To say this would have been the way, With technical precision? What is hindsight for? I wish I knew the score, Cos in my mind there’s not a thing, That hindsight’s really for!