We were ring-around-the-rosy children
They were circles around the sun
Never give up, never slow down
Never grow old, never ever die youngSynchronized 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 apartAnd we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it
We got to close our eyes
Cut up our losses into doable doses
Ration our tears and sighsYou could see them 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
Not enough tough for this townCouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole
No, it didn't seem to rattle at all
They were glued together body and soul
That much more with their backs up against the wallOh, 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 allI guess it had to happen someday soon
Wasn't nothing to hold them down
They would rise from among us like a big balloon
Take the sky, and forsake the groundOh, yes, other hearts were broken
Yeah other dreams ran dry
But our golden ones sail on sail on
To another land beneath another sky
oh
Let other hearts be broken
Let other dreams run dry
Let our golden one sail on sail on
To another land beneath another skyBeneath another skyHold them up
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