We were ring-around-the-rosy children
They were circles around the sun
Never give up, never slow down

Never grow old, never ever die young

Synchronized with the rising moon

Even with the evening star
They were true love written in stone
They were never alone, they

were never that far apart

And we who couldn't bear to

believe they might make it
We got to close our eyes
Cut up our losses into doable doses

Ration our tears and sighs

You could see them on the street on a Saturday night

Everyone used to run them down
They're a little too sweet,
they're a little too tight

Not enough tough for this town

We couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole

No, it didn't seem to rattle at all
They were glued together body and soul
That much more with their backs up against the wall


Oh, hold them up, hold them up
Never do let them fall

Pray to the dust and the rust and the ruin
That names us and claims us and shames us all


I guess it had to happen someday soon
wasn't nothing to hold them down
They would rise from among us like a big balloon

Take to the sky, forsake the ground

Oh, yes, other hearts were broken

Yeah, other dreams ran dry
But our golden ones sail on, sail on
To another land beneath another sky


But our golden ones sail on, sail on
To another land beneath another sky


beneath another sky


hold them up
hold them up....