ALL THE THINGS YOU KNOW

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ALL THE THINGS YOU KNOW

A LIFE FILLED WITH UNCERTAINTY

IS THE KIND OF LIFE I'VE HAD

I NEVER SAW IT COMING, BUT I KNEW AT EVERY TURN

SOMETHING NEW TO DEAL WITH

SOMETHING TO GET USED TO, SOMETHING TO LEARN

AND THOUGH I TRIED TO PREPARE MYSELF

FOR LIFE'S LITTLE EVENTUALITIES

SOME REALITIES I'D OF PREFERRED NOT TO KNOW

THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES

THE WINDS OF CHANGE NEVER CEASE TO BLOW

ALL THE THINGS YOU KNOW COULD NEVER BE ENOUGH

TO GUIDE YOU THROUGH UNSCATHED

PROTECT YOU FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE

ONE DAY HERE AND ONE DAY THERE

BEFORE YOU KNOW IT TWENTY YEARS SLIPPED BY

YOU WONDER WHAT IT IS TO EASE THE PAIN

THAT YOU HAVEN'T TRIED

THE SKIES SEEMED BLUER THEN

NIGHTS WERE INNOCENT AND LONG

EVERYONE WAS KINDER THEN, BROTHERHOOD WAS STRONG

I KNEW BETTER WHERE I STOOD

NOT AT ALL LIKE TODAY

STANDING HERE ON THIS CRUMBLING GROUND

HOW COULD CENTURIES HAVE GOTTEN PAST

SO MANY AND SO MUCH DIDN'T LAST

IN A LIFE FILLED WITH UNCERTAINTY

I FOUND MY COMFORT WHERE I COULD

I PUT MY TRUST IN FATE, THREW IT TO THE WORLD

CAST IT ON THE WINDS OF CHANGE

TO SEE WHICH DIRECTION IT WOULD GO

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Written by: Jeffrey Robert Hilton December 2015

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