{"id":51,"date":"2016-10-05T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/from-the-cradle-to-the-rocking-chair\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:02:00","slug":"from-the-cradle-to-the-rocking-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/from-the-cradle-to-the-rocking-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Cradle to the Rocking Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

FROM THE CRADLE TO THE ROCKING CHAIR<\/span><\/b>
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry December 1973<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nWe’re on our way<\/span>
\nFrom the cradle to the rocking chair.<\/span>
\nWe leap out of the cradle<\/span>
\nAnd rock on to the rocking chair.<\/span>
\nWe’re tracked by time<\/span>
\nTime trys to keep us in line.<\/span>
\nKeep us in line<\/span>
\nbut it’s not easy to rhyme each line of your life.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nThe pens of the earth<\/span>
\nAre tracing and recording our fate.<\/span>
\nThe pens of the earth<\/span>
\nLike graphs of our sorrow and mirth.<\/span>
\nAnd it’s hard graft<\/span>
\nFrom the cradle to the rocking chair.<\/span>
\nAnd it’s a fast race<\/span>
\nFrom the cradle to the rocking chair.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nI don’t know how to compete<\/span><\/i>
\nThere’s so many clocks that you have to beat.<\/span><\/i>
\nThe tempo of life is set to a rock n roll beat.<\/span><\/i>
\nI look around me, I feel incomplete.<\/span><\/i>
\nI can’t tap my feet to the rhythm of the drumbeat.<\/span><\/i>
\nI’m shaking in my seat because everywhere i look<\/span><\/i>
\nFeel I must compete – must compete.<\/span><\/i>
\n
<\/span>
\nI’m tuned too high<\/span>
\nNow I’m all tense and taunt.<\/span>
\nI’m tuned to a high pitch.<\/span>
\nPluck me and I will twang.<\/span>
\nBut if you suddenly tune me lower<\/span>
\nTo a pace that’s sweet and slower.<\/span>
\nI’d feel so lost..keep falling off.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nWe we’re rocking in the cradle<\/span>
\nWhen we were young.<\/span>
\nThen rocking to the beat of a rock n roll song<\/span>
\nWhen life slows down<\/span>
\nWe’ll be swinging to Sinatra and like.<\/span>
\nTill we rock once more<\/span>
\nRocking in our rocking chair.<\/span>
\nWaiting for that chariot (that chariot so sweet).<\/span>
\nTo swing so low through the air.<\/span>
\nWhen we passed from the cradle to the rocking chair.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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