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I lie in someone’s shadow

And gobble up the night

I hide behind the darkness

And hold the moment tight

And just as I’m a man tomorrow

I’m a man tonight

But looking back at thirty

One thing time has shown

That’s little consolation

When you spend the day alone

But every day’s another chance

You’ve got to dance it

Like it was the final dance

And yet a dance is just a dance

And nothing more

You can’t expect to turn each turn

And find the secret door

I run down by the river

And watch the waters roll

I’ve let it take my body

And even take my soul

For my heart is like the river water

Muddy, dark and cold

But looking back at thirty

It’s later than I thought

It’s bad to brood the years away

For what I haven’t got

For all you touch you cannot keep

And what is love but just another kind of sleep

And yet to sleep again

Would be worth all the troubles that I’ve known

Sometimes I think I’m never ever going home

If I thought that time meant nothing

I’d use the days like sweets

And pass ‘em out like candy

All along the streets

Exchanging them for favors

From people that one meets

But looking back at thirty

Older by a mile

There’ve been too many strangers

That knew my crooked smile

Oh, the crowds can be so wild

They push and trample you

Like some forgotten child

And yet…

I guess I’ve never been a child at all

Except sometimes…

In terms of feeling small

Sometimes in someone’s shadow

I think I’ve found a way

To keep the darkness for myself

At night as well as day

But always with the sunlight

The shadow goes away

And looking back at thirty

Holding back the tears

I might as well be

One, two, three times thirty years

But every day’s another dance

You’ve got to dance it

Like it was the final dance

And if a dance is just a dance

And nothing more

You got to keep on trying hard

To find that secret door

Looking back at thirty

That’s what living’s for

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