Rise and Fall

Listen here, tell me dear
 What have you now got to fear?
 Took you long to realise
 Take it one day at a time
 You've been wasting the minutes
 In the hours of your days
 Look around and you'll find
 That it's just another way
 To kill some time for what you're worth
 'Cause you don't have long on this earth
 So change your mind one more time
 Then it makes no sense at all
 Just make a promise that you'll be
 The best to rise and fall
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 Could there be more to see
 In this world but you and me?
 There's no time in the day
 To even think we could betray
 What we know, what we think
 As our limbs begin to sink
 Has time not taught us anything?
 (We can't remember everything)
 But there's something on my mind
 That I need to leave behind
 So tear the page, hit erase
 'Til the day you hear me call
 Make a promise that you'll be
 The best to rise and fall
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 Justify all the lies
 That we use to get us by
 Do we ever really change?
 Do we always stay the same?
 We just take some suggestions
 We follow the directions
 The fact is plain to see
 That you're just the same as me
 But one thing is for sure
 When you're standing at my door
 Play the game, lose the name
 'Cause eventually we crawl
 Make a promise that you'll be
 The best to rise and fall