I Was Born Uke tab by Magnetic Fields

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I was born, I hate this part,
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being someone new,
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being torn, seeing someone who died as you grew.
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Growing older is killing a child
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who laughed and smiled at anything,
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growing colder and less and less wild
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and learning to sing.

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I was young, then not so young:
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scary either way.
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One more rung down that black ladder every day.

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One more floor down the elevator
          G        D
to oblivion what fun,
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but the singularly awful one
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is being born.