I'm really okay, thanksnThere's nothing to witnessnI said as I looked back from the edge of a cliffnThe old man looking down bent over the ridge nStruck with a grin as if a blessing had hit himnnI slumped on the jut of the cliffnJust leave me alone, this is none of your businessnI will, said the old man, but just one thingnAnd what he said was so lovely it stunned mennHe said: I lay right there once at the edge of the rocknI was ready to jump, I was ever so lostnBut this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgotnn[Chorus:]nFor billions of years since the outset of timenEvery single one of your ancestors has survivednEvery single person on your mum and dad's sidenSuccessfully looked after and passed on to you lifenWhat are the chances of that, like?nIt comes to me once in a whilenAnd everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smilennAnd then the old man walked away and out of sightnTil the sound of him hiking turned to the sound of silence.nI just froze in a profound surprise nAnd from down on my pride I found a smile to my eyes.nnAnd for many days again I've been passing the same cliff nAnd on many occasions I'd chance on the same thingnnLaying in the moss, in the same way I was nWould be another man looking like he needed a change of lucknnSo I'd say: I lay right there once at the edge of the rocknI was ready to jump, I was ever so lostnBut this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgotnn[Chorus: Repeat 2X]
On the Edge of a Cliff
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***Not Addicted*** All Goes Out the Window Alleged Legends Cross That Line Dry Your Eyes [Album Version] Dry Your Eyes [Multimedia Track] Everything Is Borrowed Fake Streets Hats Fit But You Know It [Album Version] Fit But You Know It [Radio Edit] Geezers Need Excitement Going Through Hell Heaven For The Weather Hotel Expressionism I Love You More (Than You Like Me) Lock The Locks Memento Mori OMG On The Flip Of A Coin Outside Inside Prangin' Out (Pete's Version) Puzzled by People Roof Of Your Car Same Old Thing Soldiers Streets Score The Escapist The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living The Way Of The Dodo Trust Me Two Nations War of the Sexes What Is He Thinking? Who Got the Funk?
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