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Never Die Young
James Taylor
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It starts, "We were ring-around-the-rosy children
They were circles around the sun
Never give up, never slow down
Never grow old and never die young"
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We were ring-around-the-rosy children
They were circles around the sun
Never give up and never slow down
Never grow old, never, ever die young
Synchronized with the rising moon
Even with the evening star
They were true love written in stone
They were never alone, they were never that far apart
And we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it
We had to close our eyes
To cut up our losses into doable doses
And ration our tears and sighs
You could see 'em on the street on a Saturday night
Everyone used to run them down
They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight
They're not enough tough for this tough town
You couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole
No, it didn't seem to rattle at all
They were fused together, body and soul
That much more with their backs up against the wall
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Oh, hold them up, hold them up
Never do let them fall
Pray to the dust and the rust and the ruin
That names us and claims us and shames us all
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Oh, it had to happen someday soon
There wasn't nothing to hold them down
They would rise from among us like a big balloon
Take to sky and forsake the ground
Oh, yes, other hearts were broken
And I know, other dreams ran dry
But our golden ones sail on and on
To another land beneath another sky
Let other hearts be broken
Let other dreams run dry
Let our golden ones sail on and on
To another land beneath another sky
Beneath another sky
Hold them up, hold them up
Hold them up, won't you hold them up?
Can't you hold them up
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