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Don't Let Me Die Middle Aged (Live)

from Lost & Found (Live at the Lost Sierra Hoedown 2019) by The Sam Chase

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    A hungover solo live set to wrap up a raucous weekend at the Lost Sierra Hoedown high up in the Sierras in Johnsville, CA. September 22nd, 2019.

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lyrics

No one expects the night to come
When the suns still in the sky
No one thinks they’ve won the race
With no finish line in sight
No one writes just half a song
and expects it to be a hit
No one gets over the hump
and then decides to quit

No one ever told you much
without getting to the point
No one sets their sites on NYC
but settles on Des Moines
No one tells a story
without a beginning or an end
It’s the middle that’s forgotten
and never heard of again

Don’t let me die middle aged
don’t let me die middle aged
Im too young to die old and
too old to die young today

Don’t let me die middle aged
don’t let me die middle aged
The sun rises and sets
as we forget about the day

No one climbs up half a mountain
and then decides to stop
If so, you ain’t no mountain climber
You’ve just gone for a walk
You hear “finish what you’ve start”
and Once you start you see it through
You hear “no one likes a quitter”
Even if that’s not always true

You hear “It’s better to die young”
You hear “those stars burn the most bright”
You also hear “A life well lived”
Is to have lived a good long life”
You never hear “the middle years
are the best times to go”
“once you’ve settled with a wife and kids
that’s the time to blow”

Don’t let me die middle aged
don’t let me die middle aged
Im too young to die old and
too old to die young today

Don’t let me die middle aged
don’t let me die middle aged
The sun rises and sets
as we forget about the day

its how a story works
after a beginning is the middle
After the middle is the ending
It really is that simple
But if you rate from best to worst
which of these you most prefer
The middle comes in last
Which is not the way it works

No one thinks the ending comes
in the middle of the book
There are so many more pages
Someday we’ll have a look
What’s read is in the past
What we read is yet to come
but “now” is not as exciting
As what we’ll do
or what we’ve done

Don’t let me die middle aged
don’t let me die middle aged
Im too young to die old and
too old to die young today

Don’t let me die middle aged
don’t let me die middle aged
The sun rises and sets
as we forget about the day
There is just as much to do
and just as much to say
As I’ve already done
and as all that I have said

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from Lost & Found (Live at the Lost Sierra Hoedown 2019), released May 5, 2020

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