Lifetime of Song

How great is the need for the toys of mankind?

If you learn how to feed from the joys you can find

When a smile and a wink and a snippet of song

Is good trade for a drink and a place to belong

What gift can I find in return for this prize?

All the genuine kindness I see in your eyes

I can learn of your dreams and this much I can do

For this moment, it seems, I can give them to you

I will fashion a rhyme with a twist of my tongue

I will turn back the time to when all things were young

I will give to this earth of myself, right or wrong

For you kindness is worth my lifetime of song

I confront all your fears so for you they will die

I can cry all the tears that you tough boys won't cry

All the words you can't speak will be my common speech

All the answers you seek I can help you to reach

I will fashion a rhyme with a twist of my tongue

I will turn back the time to when all things were young

I will give to this earth of myself, right or wrong

For you kindness is worth my lifetime of song

This vow that I make for my lifetime will stay

For the music you take you can give what you may

A green paper eagle or a smile when we part

All tender is legal when sent from the heart

I will fashion a rhyme with a twist of my tongue

I will turn back the time to when all things were young

I will give to this earth of myself, right or wrong

For you kindness is worth my lifetime of song

I will fashion a rhyme with a twist of my tongue

I will turn back the time to when all things were young

I will give to this earth of myself, right or wrong

For you kindness is worth my lifetime of song