| When I was a boy, all piss and vinegar
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| Life spoke of simple things
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| Stick or stone, an old football
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| A shoe laced up with string
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| In a secondhand world of joy
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| With your own ones through the noise
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| In a wee house filled with kith and kin
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| How we would laugh, how we would sing
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| That’s the way life should be
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| When you’re family
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| That’s the way life should be
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| Here we are now in the days of our lives
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| Three steps, and hey you’re both gone
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| Forgetting how to take a moment
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| And breathe the air all slow
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| I don’t call you 'cause you don’t have time
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| It’s a hill that we still have to climb
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| But if we believe in our heart of hearts
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| When love comes first, we’ll show the fire
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| That’s the way life should be
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| Wae yer family
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| That’s the way life should be
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| Wae yer family
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| Oh, that’s the way life should be
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| Oh, wae yer family
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| That’s the way life should be
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| Wae yer family
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| (We are the ones who make the claim)
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| (We are the ones who live to shine)
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| (We are the ones who walk in shadows of those who came before)
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| (And now we share this love)
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| (Let's raise a glass to those we love)
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| (So here’s to you and yours and my mad mother)
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| (For they are many and all that I have got)
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| That’s the way life should be
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| Wae yer family
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| That’s the way life should be
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| Wae yer family
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| Oh, that’s the way life should be
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| Oh, wae yer family
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| That’s the way life should be
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| Wae yer family
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| Yeah, wae your family
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| Sing out son
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| That’s the way life should be
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| I’d kill things Johnny
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| Wae yer family
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| That’s the way life should be
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| Wae yer family
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| That’s the way that life should be… |