| When I was young, it seemed that life
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| was so wonderful, a miracle,
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| oh it was beautiful, magical.
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| And all the birds in the trees,
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| well they’d be singing so happily,
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| oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me.
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| But then they sent me away,
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| to teach me how to be sensible,
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| logicalm oh, responsible practical.
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| And they showed me a world
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| where I could be so dependable,
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| oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical.
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| There are times when all the world’s asleep,
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| the questions run too deep for such a simple man
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| Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned?
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| I know it sounds absurd. |
| Please tell me who I am
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| I said, now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
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| a liberal, oh fanatical, criminal.
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| Oh, won’t you sign up your name,
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| we’d like to feel you’re acceptable,
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| respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable!
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| At night, when all the world’s asleep…
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| Please tell me who I am who I am who I am who I am |