We were ring-around-the-rosy children   They were circles around the sun   Never give up, never slow down   Never grow old, never ever die young      Synchronized with the rising moon   Even with the evening star   They were true love written in stone   They were never alone, they were never that far apart      And we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it   We got to close our eyes   Cut up our losses into doable doses   Ration our tears and sighs      You could see them on the street on a Saturday night   Everyone used to run them down   They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight   They're not enough tough for this tough town      We couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole   Oh No, it didn't seem to rattle at all   They were fused together body and soul   That much more with their backs up against the wall      Oh, hold them up, hold them up   Never do let them fall   Prey to the dust and the rust and the ruin   That names us and claims us and shames us all      I guess it had to happen someday soon   There wasn't nothing to hold them down   They would rise from among us like a big balloon   Take the sky, and forsake the ground      Oh, yes, other hearts were broken   And I know other dreams ran dry   But our golden ones sail on and on   To another land beneath another sky    oh   Let other hearts be broken   Let other dreams run dry   Just let us own golden one sail and on   To another land beneath another sky      Beneath another sky      Hold them on