This Is All I Ask


As I approach the prime of my life,
I find I have the time of my life.
Learning to enjoy at my leisure all simple pleasures
And so I happily concede: this is all I ask, this is all I need.

Beautiful girls, walk a little slower when you walk by me.
Lingering sunsets, stay a little longer with the lonely sea
Childeren everywhere, when you shoot at bad men, shoot at me
Take me to that strange enchanted land grownups seldom understand.

Wandering rainbows, leave a bit of color for my heart to own.
Stars in the sky make my wish come true before the night has flown.
Let the music play as long as there's a song to sing.
And I will stay longer than spring.


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