I Was Born Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

I was born, I hate this part 

Being someone new 

Being torn 

Seeing someone who died, as you grew 

Growing older is killing a child 

Who laughed and smiled at anything 

Growing colder and less and less wild 

And learning to sing 

I was young, then not so young 

Scary either way 

One more rung 

Down that black ladder every day 

One more floor down the elevator 

To oblivion, what fun 

But the singularly awful one 

Is being born