What They Say

They say, "The good die young," but it ain't for certain
 I been good all day, I ain't hurtin'
 Not in any way
 I'm too old to die young
 I shouldn't talk too loud
 Bad luck is preying on the proud ones
 There's nothin' like lying in a graveyard
 To teach you to hold your tongue
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 They say, "The Devil was an angel back in the beginnin'"
 So, was I nobody's pinnin' any hopes on me
 I ain't sayin' that they oughta
 I didn't wanna change, but the road kept slidin' in a funny way
 And I kept ridin' on it anyway
 Sometimes, you do what you gotta
 What they say, what they do
 They'll swear it is, they'll think it's true
 When they think it all, but they ain't willin'
 If they can't think of what to say, they talk anyway
 It's all cliché fast food for the brain, but not too fillin'
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 They say, "Time and tide will wait for no-one"
 The time it takes one tide to go one time
 Around the world would leave you spinnin'
 But the race is on between the tide
 And then, the people livin' right beside it
 No one's drownin' yet, but they ain't winnin'
 If words were wisdom, we'd all speak
 And smarten up from week to week
 Just sayin', "Live and learn," there's nothin' to it
 Friends in need are the friends indeed
 But the friends who think of what we need
 They hardly talk at all, they just do it
 They hardly talk at all, they just do it