Another year around the sun
Another winter’s been and gone
Now your skin’s by summer warmed
Just like it was when you were born
Born as the sky glowed late into the night
Born into the warmth and to the light
Finland’s winter’s now far away
But it’s in each breath of every day
To whisper you its ancient heart
To balance up the light and dark
To help you clearly see when the fog rolls in
And know the peace of settling deep within
And like that restless northern wind
That roams to glow upon your skin
You roamed around when you were young
A restless song yet to be sung
Waiting for an echo that sounded true
An echo resonating inside you
And then there’s all the risks you took
The careless love the rules you broke
All those bad decisions that you survived
All those bad decisions that helped you thrive
Then standing blinking trying to make sense of it all
Finding out the ones who’ll pick you up when you fall
And then you are just who you are
After all the luck and long forgotten scars
And all the stories of all the days
Can make the years seem to fall away
And we can play once more beneath the sun
And laugh again just like when we were young
And all we can do is watch the years go by
Like leaves upon the stream looking up at the sky
And sure enough we’re heading for the sea
To be swallowed up in its immensity
Well now that’s all in the distant past
You’ve ended up with us at last
And like us all if fate is kind
You heard the
You found your
Sometimes the years
Well who can say just who they are /
All those strokes of luck and long forgotten scars /
You’ve walked your curling thoughtful path /
And we’re all here
But history like north wind /
And if you’re
It’s no surprise
To clearly see and feel
From such things
Taking in
I’m thinkng that’s helped make you strong
Moving round from town to town
Looking for
Well, the world spins faster every day
And once more we go round the sun
Now the summer’s come back round again
Another winter’s been and gone
Now we’re all hitting 60 something
More likely now to feel the weather
We’re less likely to feel the need for rushing
We’re all in this together
We float through space as in a dream
Our minds as light as fairies’ souls
Our bodies anchored to the ground
Get slow and clunk along below
Now we’re all hitting 60 something
More likely now to feel the weather
We’re less likely to feel the need for rushing
We’re all in this together
For all who we have come to love
In our calendars we mark the dates
But in the end who’s keeping score?
Who’s counting down the months and days?
Now we’re all hitting 60 something
More likely now to feel the weather
We’re less likely to feel the need for rushing
We’re all in this together
Maybe we could do the sums
To work out what is old or young
But better to judge a life by how full
And the love that will carry us on
Now we’re all hitting 60 something
More likely now to feel the weather
We’re less likely to feel the need for rushing
We’re all in this together
Here’s to a life fully lived
Here’s to a life filled with love
Here’s to a life with its heart on its sleeve
A life with a wisdom hard won
Now we’re all hitting 60 something
More likely now to feel the weather
We’re less likely to feel the need for rushing
We’re all in this together
age is just a state of mind
So here we are another year
Another date ticked off the
Not That speaks to us of averages
But we don’t live by laws of science
Life is an inexact science
The body is no replaceable appliance
Kept together by will and the law of averages
But we’re not dumb fatalistic savages
Now we enter the vast open plains of our sixties
The brute apex ailments start to circle and sniff us
But onwards we push with our clan here beside us
Into the night with the light still inside us
Now here we all are pushing 60 something
With the miles still ahead and nobody rushin
Air is still free and the food is still tasty
There’s still books to be read and music to raise us
And we’re still only 60 something
All the hard won wisdom
Let’s hold on for as long as we can
60 something, close enough when age is not the most important thing, forget the limits of the body, peel away the numbers to
Wallow in your wisdom, love the attention
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