Carolyn Arends

Seize The Day

Carolyn Arends


I know a girl who was schooled in Manhattan 
She reads dusty books and learns phrases in Latin 
She is an author, or maybe a poet 
A genius but it's just this world doesn't know it 
She works on her novel most every day 
If you laugh she will say 

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Seize the day, seize whatever you can 
'Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand 
Seize the day, pray for grace from God's hand 
Then nothing will stand in your way 
Seize the day 

Well I know a doctor, a fine young physician 
Left his six-figure job for a mission position 
He's healing the sick in an African clinic 
He works in the dirt and writes home to the cynics 
He says "We work through the night so most every day 
As we watch the sun rise we can say 

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Well I know a man who's been doing some thinking 
He's as bitter and cold as the whiskey he's drinking 
He's talking 'bout fear, about chances not taken 
If you listen to him you can hear his heart breaking 
He says "One day you're a boy and the next day you're dead 
I wish way back when someone had said 

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Well one thing I've noticed, wherever I wander 
Everyone's got a dream he can follow or squander 
You can do what you will with the days you are given 
I'm trying to spend mine on the business of living 
So I'm singing my songs off of any old stage 
You can laugh if you want, I'll still say 

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