The flesh is weak, it goes one way

For these weeks of winter days, this cold won't go away

Through the young and carefree years, danger always was there near

As your will dissolves in tears of fear

Time will show what is threshed

Also sown, like a thrush, time has flown

If there's another world who knows

Past these Cadillacs in rows

Close your eyes, think of someone that you loved

And trouble not, remember all the joy they brought

For life is full of tears, and like a shot

It's soon over dear, but love is not

What a nightmare to be young, as the first rays

of awareness, like the sun, burn the fog away

Life brings death, but smile, and draw another breath

And when the disco dance is done

And last night's fun looks sick in the sun

And you don't know what's begun

Close your eyes, think of someone that you loved

And trouble not, remember all the joy they brought

For life is full of tears, and like a shot

It's soon over dear

Love's not enough to make the waves less rough

But like blood, a little goes a long way

In the darkness of uncertain days

It hurts to love someone this way

Though we seek to know its stay

The flesh is weak, it goes one way