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[00:13.10]"Did you ever sit and ponder,
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[00:15.39]Sit and wonder, sit and think,
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[00:18.33]Why we're here and what this life is all about?
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[00:23.86]It's a problem that has driven
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[00:26.03]Many brainy men to drink,
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[00:29.15]It's the weirdest thing they've tried to figure out.
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[00:35.04]About a thousand diff'rent theories
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[00:37.60]All the scientists can show,
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[00:40.73]But never yet have proved a reason why
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[00:46.51]With all we've thought
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[00:47.89]And all we're taught,
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[00:49.58]Why all we seem to know,
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[00:52.04]Is we're born, and live a while and then we die.
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[00:58.54]Refrain 1
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[00:58.87]Life's a very funny proposition after all,
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[01:04.19]Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy and all.
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[01:10.07]Three meals a day, a whole lot to say;
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[01:15.65]When you haven't got the coin you're always in the way.
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[01:23.59]Ev'rybody's fighting as we wend our way along,
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[01:28.88]Ev'ry fellow claims the other fellow's in the wrong;
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[01:34.93]Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call.
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[01:41.29]Life's a very funny proposition after all.
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[01:48.16]Verse 2
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[01:54.47]When all things are coming easy, and when luck is with a man,
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[01:59.32]Why then life to him is sunshine ev'rywhere;
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[02:05.27]Then the fates blow rather breezy and they quite upset a plan,
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[02:11.01]Then he'll cry that life's a burden hard to bear.
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[02:16.68]Though today may be a day of smiles, tomorrow's still in doubt,
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[02:22.39]And what brings me joy, may bring you care and woe;
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[02:28.14]We're born to die, but don't know why, or what it's all about,
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[02:33.57]And the more we try to learn the less we know.
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[02:39.83]Refrain 2
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[02:40.37]Life's a very funny proposition, you can bet,
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[02:46.07]And no one's ever solved the problem properly as yet.
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[02:51.75]Young for a day, then old and gray;
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[02:57.85]Like the rose that buds and blooms and fades and falls away,
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[03:05.85]Losing health to gain our wealth as through this dream we tour.
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[03:11.17]Ev'rything's a guess and nothing's absolutely sure;
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[03:17.33]Battles exciting and fates we're fighting until the curtain falls.
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[03:23.87]Life's a very funny proposition after all.