Just What They Told Me

I guess what concerns me the most Getting any younger so we like to boast Are the cracks and fissures splintering our lovely lives? Our acceptance of the shiny brand new kitchen knives So I have decided not to live that way I still behave in public And I don't confuse the night with day And I'm better off, please don't say We know you'll never live without You have to keep it out I pray that I'll be saved Before too long Another two or three days And I'll get it wrong A patch of thistle Measuring our early grave With waxy gleam We stroll along the colonnade And I have decided not to live that way I still behave in public And I don't confuse the night with day And I'm better off, please don't say We know you'll never live without You have no way to keep it out I did just what they told me I'm just trying to make my way I did just what they told me