Never Die Young

We were ring-around-the-rosy children
 They were circles around the sun
 Never give up, never slow down
 Never grow old, never, ever die young
 Synchronized with the rising moon
 Even with the evening star
 They were true love written in stone
 They were never alone, they were never that far apart
 And we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it
 We got to close our eyes
 Cut up our losses into doable doses
 And ration our tears and sighs
 Oh, you could see 'em on the street on a Saturday night
 Everyone used to run them down
 They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight
 Not enough tough for this town
 Couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole
 No, it didn't seem to rattle at all
 They were glued together, body and soul
 That much more with their backs up against the wall
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 Oh, hold them up, hold them up
 Never do let them fall
 Prey to the dust and the rust and the ruin
 That names us and claims us and shames us all
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 I guess it had to happen someday soon
 Wasn't nothing to hold them down
 They would rise from among us like a big balloon
 Take to the sky and forsake the ground
 Oh, yes, other hearts were broken
 Yeah, other dreams ran dry
 But our golden ones sail on, sail on
 To another land beneath another sky
 (Let other hearts be broken) oh
 (Let other dreams run dry)
 Let our golden ones sail on, sail on
 To another land beneath another sky
 Beneath another sky
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 Hold them up, hold them up
 Hold them up, hold them up
 Hold them up, hold them up
 Hold them up, hold them up
 Hold them up to me, hold them up to me
 Hold them up, hold them up
 (Hold them up) hold them up, hold them up, hold them up
 (Don't let them fall)