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Lyrics:
Birds are singing in the alder trees
Another day is dawning
Don't let me get any older please
I'm so sick and tired of mourning
What has passed and what could've been
What can't be changed or attained
I've been taking all my medicine
But I'm still crazy and in pain
I sing songs to forget, to remember
But I can't hold a tune
I drink cup-a-soup for breakfast
Cause I don't have any spoons
The trees are naked in the cold air
But clinging to their catkins and cones
I can't hold nests upon my shoulders
I don't know how to keep a home
So I incubate all my anxieties
Hatch and mother my new fears
Regard my ugly children with a piety
Once reserved for deities held dear
Supplicate my mind for sanity
It usually ignores my prayers
I've never been one for prophecy