Who am I
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Who am I, to stand and wonder,
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to wait while the wheels
of fate slowly grind my life away ?
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Who am I ?
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1. There were some things that I loved one time,
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but the dreams are gone, I
thought were mine,
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and the hidden tears that once
did fall,
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now burn inside at the thought
of all,
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the years of waste, the years
of cryin',
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the passions of a heart so
blind,
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to think that, but even still,
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as I stand exposed to the
feelings I felt,
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and I cried into the echoes of
my loneliness.
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2. What a nothing I've made
of life,
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the empty words, the coward's
plight,
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to be pushed and passed from
hand to hand,
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never daring to speak, never
daring to stand,
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and the emptiness in my
family's eye,
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reminds me over and over of
lies,
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and promises and deeds undone,
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and now again I have to run,
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but now there is nowhere to
run to.
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Who am I, to stand and wonder,
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to wait while the wheels
of fate slowly grind my life away ?
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G
Who am I ?
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3. And now my friend we meet again,
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and we shall see which one
will bend,
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under the strain of death's
golden eyes,
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which one of us will win the prize,
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to live and which one will die,
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'tis I my friend, yes 'tis I,
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will kill to live again and
again,
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clutch the throat of sweet
revenge,
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for life is here only for the
taking.
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(Country Joe McDonald &
The Fish)