Just What They Told Me

Guess what concerns me the most

We're getting any younger so we like to boast

Are the cracks and fissures splintering our lovely lives

Our acceptance of the shiny brand-new kitchen knives



So i have decided not to live that way

I still behave in public

And i don't confuse the night with day

And i'm better off please don't say

We know you'll never live without

You have to keep it out



I pray that i'll be saved

Before too long

Another two or three days

And i'll get it wrong



A patch of thistle

Measuring our early grave

With waxy gleam

We stroll along the colonnade



And i have decided not to live that way

I still behave in public

And i don't confuse the night with day

And i'm better off please don't say

We know you'll never live without

You have no way to keep it out



I did just what they told me

I'm just trying to make my way

I did just what they told me


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