She said that time is unfair to a woman her age
And now that wisdom has come everything else fades
She said she realizes she's seen her better days
She said she can't look back to her days of youth
What she thought were lies, she later found was truth
She said her daddy had dreams but he drank them away
And her mother's to blame for the way she is today
Life's river shall rise, (she said)
And only the strong shall survive, (she said)