| As we stood there older than men
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| And younger than the boys (that's right)
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| We were as still as the wind
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| That blows on a hot August night
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| And you were lonesome
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| As a jukebox
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| But deadly just the same
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| I could be as gentle as a newborn
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| Then spit into the eye of a hurricane
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| And we knew how to laugh
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| And we knew how to cry
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| Yeah, we sure knew how to live
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| But we don’t ever
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| Never say die
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| Never say die
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| I guess you’d say we had a pact
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| These words we knew so well (that's right)
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| Still they remained unspoken
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| And we’d take them to the fiery
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| Gates of hell
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| Once I was afraid of love
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| But when it’s your brother
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| Those things change
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| 'Cause love is just another word
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| For trust
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| So hear me when I say
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| Never say die
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| Never say no
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| You got to look them in the eye
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| And don’t let go
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| When it’s your own blood you’ll bleed
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| And your own tears you’ll cry
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| When you’re brought up to believe
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| That it’s the strong who survive
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| Never say die
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| Yeah, and we could run like lightning
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| Through the pouring rain
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| And we’ll be standing like a soldier
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| Who comes marching home again
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| They ask what it is that I want written
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| On the gravestone where I’ll lie
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| Tell them it’s just my bones
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| That died there
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| So save the tears they’ll cry
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| My spirit is still riding somewhere
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| Somewhere in this night
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| When it’s these three words that come to me
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| As I kiss this world goodbye
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| Never say die
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| Never say no
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| You got to look them in the eye
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| And don’t let go
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| When it’s your own blood you’ll bleed
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| And your own tears you’ll cry
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| When you’re brought up to believe
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| That it’s the strong who survive
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| Never say die |