If life is like a candle bright, it must be the wind.
You can close your window tight, and it still comes flowing in.
So I will climb the highest hill, and watch the rising sun.
And I pray that I don't feel the chill, till I'm too old to die young.
Let me watch my children.
Let me watch my children grow, to see what they've become.
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow, till I'm too old to die young.
Now I have had some dear sweet friends.
I thought I would never die.
Now the only thing that's left of them, is the teardrops in my eyes.
If I could have one wish today, and know it would be done.
Well, I would say, everyone could stay, till they're too old to die young.
Let me watch my children grow, to see what they've become.
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow.
Till I'm too old to die young.
Let me watch my children grow, to see what they've become.
Oh Lord, don't let that cold wind blow.
Till I'm too old to die young.
Till I'm too old to die young.
Yeah!