[00:08.410]When I was 10 years old I always needed to be told
[00:12.010]That I should not be frightened by the fact that we grow old
[00:15.970]But as the days slipped by I felt the pressing need to cry
[00:19.890]And I quickly understood exactly why they'd had to lie
[00:26.880]In the daylight I could cope, because the sun seemed full of hope
[00:30.850]I laughed enough for two grown men and learnt I could tell jokes
[00:34.710]But sadness has a subtle face and then it came to gloat
[00:38.720]We heard about the girl and boy hung by their skipping rope
[00:45.490]Isn't it too hard to conceive
[00:49.230]Doesn't it bring you to your knees?
[00:53.790]And all I want to do
[00:57.750]is to float with the river so free.
[01:03.350]Now, fear is not a gentle thing although it has no fists
[01:07.670]It crawls down from your thoughts and ties you by your skinny wrists
[01:11.680]Death will take your lips from you so that you cannot kiss
[01:15.550]But fear will leave you screaming out for all the love you'll miss
[01:22.590]And I had a friend who thought he knew exactly where he stood
[01:26.610]A place in heaven's safe for him as long as he did good
[01:30.570]But life and love ran through his veins and opened up his mind
[01:34.550]Now he's got his gun but a new terror sings at night
[01:41.320]Isn't it too hard to conceive
[01:45.240]Doesn't it bring you to your knees
[01:49.410]And all I want to do is to float with the river so free
[01:59.400]And Larkin is the master in this poetry of fear
[02:03.430]But he could never capture what cried darkly in his ears
[02:07.390]And he would understand that though I wrote these words to sing
[02:11.320]These petty verses cannot hope to tell you anything
[02:18.100]Isn't it too hard to conceive
[02:22.020]Doesn't it bring you to your knees
[02:26.190]And all I want to do is to float with the river so free
[02:36.190]So everyday I'll stop these thoughts before they'll take a hold
[02:40.260]Lying in my bed pretending that I won't grow old
[02:44.280]And maybe when I'm 84 I'll sit and sing this song
[02:48.300]Just hope that if I do then this fear is dead and gone
[02:55.020]Isn't it too hard to conceive
[02:59.000]Doesn't it bring you to your knees
[03:03.160]And all I want to do is to float with the river so free
[03:03.890]And all I want to do is to float with the river so free
[03:11.590]Isn't it too hard to conceive
[03:15.000]Doesn't it bring you to your knees
[03:27.590]Is to float with the river so free
[03:31.540]Is to float with the river so free