Looking down on a little boy

His face all aged with soil

He never knew the life of a child

As he works on through young days

Walking on, his eyes a daze

Never knowing what it is to play





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The life of a child

Aged all the while

His young life on trial

The life of a child



The snow is deep and falling swift

The trees, they sway and freeze

The little man who is so old

Travels on through the bitter cold

Stumbles on as he carries coal

To his little hole in the wall



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He always wondered why

His father had to die

The face, it looked so beat

And he could smell defeat

He's always laughing, crying

And never knowing why

His heart still beats and still it bleeds

He wants to play...play...play all day



Looking down on this little boy

His face all clean with oil

With the look of confusion at a broken toy

Walking on through the bitter cold

Trying to put his life on hold

As his body ages all the while



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