BY: YEN D.
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When I was 10 years old I always needed to be told
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That I should not be frightened by the fact that we grow old
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But as the days slipped by I felt the pressing need to cry
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And I quickly understood exactly why they'd had to lie
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In the daylight I could cope, because the sun seemed full of hope
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I laughed enough for two grown men and learnt I could tell jokes
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But sadness has a subtle face and then it came to gloat
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We heard about the girl and boy hung by their skipping rope
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Isn't it too hard to conceive
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Doesn't it bring you to your knees?
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And all I want to do
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is to float with the river so free.
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Now, fear is not a gentle thing although it has no fists
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It crawls down from your thoughts and ties you by your skinny wrists
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Death will take your lips from you so that you cannot kiss
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But fear will leave you screaming out for all the love you'll miss
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And I had a friend who thought he knew exactly where he stood
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A place in heaven's safe for him as long as he did good
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But life and love ran through his veins and opened up his mind
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Now he's got his gun but a new terror sings at night
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Isn't it too hard to conceive
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Doesn't it bring you to your knees?
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And all I want to do
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is to float with the river so free.
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And Larkin is the master in this poetry of fear
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But he could never capture what cried darkly in his ears
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And he would understand that though I wrote these words to sing
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These petty verses cannot hope to tell you anything
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Isn't it too hard to conceive
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Doesn't it bring you to your knees?
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And all I want to do
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is to float with the river so free.
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So everyday I'll stop these thoughts before they'll take a hold
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Lying in my bed pretending that I won't grow old
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And maybe when I'm 84 I'll sit and sing this song
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Just hope that if I do then this fear is dead and gone
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Isn't it too hard to conceive
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Doesn't it bring you to your knees?
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And all I want to do
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is to float with the river so free.
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Isn't it too hard to conceive
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Doesn't it bring you to your knees?
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And all I want to do
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is to float with the river so free.
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is to float with the river so free.
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is to float with the river so free.
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