Never Die Young Lyrics - Never Die Young - James Taylor

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 

Ration our tears and sighs 

You could see them 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 

Oh, hold them up, hold them up 

Never do let them fall 

Pray to the dust and the rust and the ruin 

That names us and claims us and shames us all 

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 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 

oh 

Let other hearts be broken 

Let other dreams run dry 

Let our golden one sail on sail on 

To another land beneath another sky 

Beneath another sky 

Hold them up