All Along

"There's only one kind of way out of here,"

said the burglar to the fool,

"There's too much to clarify

you cannot break the rule."

"No reason to get disconcerted",

the fool he softly spoke,

"There are many here among us

who feel that death

is but the punchline to a joke.

But you and me we both know that

and what will be will be,

so let us not think different now

the time's a-flying free.

And time flies

on a one-way ticket

never to return,

let's light the candle at both ends

while we have one to burn."

(For Jimi Hendrix ~ with a nod to Bob Dylan)

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