The argonauts always intrigued me,
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They typified every man:
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Happy unless something popped up
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That wasn't part of the plan
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But there'd been no pretension of plans from the start,
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So why did they go? Were they stupid and slow?
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They were so cocky and sure at the start of the show...
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But when the sails hung flat & the Argo just sat,
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Or the rocks came crashin' or the water ran low,
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When Hercules split, & Jason admitted that he didn't know where to go, he said:
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You can whine until your mouth dries up,
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Tou can hang your head and wonder why,
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Tou can die, or you can stand upright
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And never go down again
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Sisyphus always intrigued me, he never decided to stop;
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The point of it lay in the trying and not in attaining the top
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Granted, he didn¡¯t have much of a choice,
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But neither do you & neither do I, And neither did you & neither do I
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And even Mr Moneybags on the hill has never stopped pushin¡¯ and he never quite will
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We¡¯re not just here to see how hard we try
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But the way we try & it ain¡¯t no lie
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You can whine until your mouth dries up,
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You can hang your head and wonder why,
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You can die, or you can stand upright and never go down again
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So I¡¯m makin¡¯ up songs in my head
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To the cadence of seams in the road;
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Most of ¡®em suck, it kills time, though:
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We¡¯ve got a freakin¡¯ long way to go
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But our hearts are strong & our minds intact
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And we¡¯re never gonna stop, & that¡¯s a big, fat fact
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A little cream in my coffee & a good CD,
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Makin¡¯ everybody sing along with me:
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You can whine until your mouth dries up,
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You can hang your head and wonder why,
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You can die, or you can stand upright and never go down again
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And never go down again.
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