The flesh is weak, it goes one way  For these weeks of winter days, this cold won't go away  Through the young and carefree years, danger always was there near  As your will dissolves in tears of fear  Time will show what is threshed  Also sown, like a thrush, time has flown  If there's another world who knows  Past these Cadillacs in rows  Close your eyes, think of someone that you loved  And trouble not, remember all the joy they brought  For life is full of tears, and like a shot  It's soon over dear, but love is not  What a nightmare to be young, as the first rays  of awareness, like the sun, burn the fog away  Life brings death, but smile, and draw another breath  And when the disco dance is done  And last night's fun looks sick in the sun  And you don't know what's begun  Close your eyes, think of someone that you loved  And trouble not, remember all the joy they brought  For life is full of tears, and like a shot  It's soon over dear  Love's not enough to make the waves less rough  But like blood, a little goes a long way  In the darkness of uncertain days  It hurts to love someone this way  Though we seek to know its stay  The flesh is weak, it goes one way