Come Ride, Come Ride-Emitt Rhodes

[ti:Come Ride, Come Ride] [ar:Emitt Rhodes] [al:The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969 - 1973)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Come Ride, Come Ride - Emitt Rhodes [00:08.90]Hearing children as they laugh and they sing [00:13.08] [00:13.93]Pulling brass rings dreaming all sorts of things [00:19.30] [00:20.19]And the stare in their mother's eyes both fear and delight [00:25.24] [00:26.04]She's shaking from fright but she knows everything's all right [00:31.58] [00:32.59]Come ride come ride come ride up and down [00:37.38] [00:37.93]The merry-go merry-go-round [00:42.13] [00:43.85]Pictures bring back thoughts and things from the past [00:48.22] [00:49.00]Memories they last even though time it will pass [00:54.18] [00:55.68]For memories are real when there is nothing more [01:00.18] [01:00.92]Whenever you're bored and there's nothing to live for [01:06.82] [01:07.50]Come ride come ride come ride up and down [01:12.90]The merry-go merry-go-round [01:17.34] [01:18.66]An old man he sits and he rocks in his chair [01:23.21] [01:24.11]Waiting to die the boy starts to cry but the man he cannot [01:31.55]Cause he's lived far too long and there is nothing left [01:36.58] [01:37.37]Visions of youth and he serves no more use than a book on the shelf [01:44.71] [02:01.96]Life is sweet when you've lost all your fear [02:06.25] [02:07.02]Death it is near your cares they will disappear [02:12.57] [02:13.50]So you sit and remember the gay laughing sound [02:18.52] [02:19.07]The ups and the downs of your ride on the merry-go-round [02:25.73]Come ride come ride come ride up and down [02:30.47] [02:31.39]The merry-go merry-go-round [02:35.12] [02:36.78]Life is just a merry-go-round