Carolyn Arends Seize The Day Lyrics

Seize The Day Lyrics

I know a girl who was schooled in Manhattan
She reads dusty books and learns
phrases in Latin
She is an author, or maybe a poet
A genius, but
it’s just this world doesn’t know it
She works on her novel
most everyday
If you laugh she will say

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Seize the day
– seize whatever you can
‘Cause life slips away just like
hourglass sand
Seize the day – pray for grace from God’s
hand
Then nothing will stand in your way
Seize the day

Well I know
a doctor, a fine young physician
Left his six figure job for a mission
position
He’s healing the sick in an African clinic
He works in
the dirt and writes home to the cynics
He says, “We work through the
night so most everyday
As we watch the sun rise we can
say….

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I know a man who’s been doing some
thinking 
He’s as bitter and cold as the whiskey he’s
drinking
He’s talking ‘bout fear, about chances not taken
If
you listen to him you can hear his heart breaking 
He says, “One day
you’re a boy and the next day you’re dead
I wish way back when
someone had said….

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Well one thing I’ve noticed
wherever I wander
Everyone’s got a dream he can follow or
squander
You can do what you will with the days you are given
I’m
trying to spend mine on the business of living 
So I’m singing my
songs off of any old stage
You can laugh if you want – I’ll
still say….

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