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Life Is a Long Song

Life Is a Long Song lyrics by Ian Anderson. When you're falling awake And you take stock of the new day And you hear your voice croak As you choke on what you...

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Life Is a Long Song

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When you're falling awake

And you take stock of the new day

And you hear your voice croak

As you choke on what you need to say,

Well, don't you fret, don't you fear,

I will give you good cheer

Life's a long song,

Life's a long song,

Life's a long song

If you wait then your plate I will fill

As the verses unfold and your soul

Suffers the long day

And the twelve o'clock gloom

Spins the room, you struggle on your way,

Well, don't you sigh, don't you cry,

Lick the dust from your eye

We'll meet in the sweet light of dawn

As the Baker Street train spills your pain

All over your new dress

And the symphony sounds underground

Puts you under duress,

Well, don't you squeal as the heel

Grinds you under the weels

Life's a long song,

Life's a long song,

Life's a long song,

But the tune ends too soon for us all.

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