September: September’s blushing leaves kiss our feet | As summer flies away with the rich & the geese | Your back wood fire burns down to an ember | The yard work's done, & you feel better | In September there's time to do a crossword | You wear wool sweaters in this heartening kind of cold | & This coffee’s trying to warm me up but it’s taste is getting stale | Like this season’s patient beauty, oh it doesn’t prevail | September is your chance to make a change | Life’s comedies and tragedies haven’t had a chance to rain on your parade | You feel the fading minutes of sunshine on your shoulders | As the days get shorter, & you get older | Oh I cherish, the innocence in September | I was so much younger in the fall | Now I cheat, & I swear, & I lie & I don’t feel bad at all | Now February’s backdrop is a grey & dreary mess | The snow’s too weak to sparkle, & the wind won’t take a rest | September was my chance to make a change | Life’s comedies & tragedies hadn’t had a chance to rain on my parade | I feel the fading minutes of sunshine on my shoulders | As the days get shorter, & I get older | Oh I wish I had the innocence of September | This winter's so stubborn it doesn’t want to go | It's scorning me deep down to my sinful bones | Where’s my optimism & why’s it painted blue | How did I get down this blistery road & where does it lead to? | September was my chance to make a change | Life’s comedies & tragedies hadn’t had a chance to rain on my parade | I feel the fading minutes of sunshine on my shoulders | As the days get shorter, & I get older | Oh I wish I had the innocence | Oh I miss, I miss the innocence | Oh it's bliss the innocence| In September |
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