Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Please Stand By track 05. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_please_stand_by
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Lyrics:

Innocence lost, like the first winds of summer.
Manhood outrunning me soon.
Daydreams all dead and night truths to replace them;
I chase them and hear their dark tunes.

There's nowhere to run and no youth to use running,
Nothing but fear spurs me on.
My past is behind and somehow I can't see it,
Like the words of a forgotten song.

A song, in the midst of the summer
With birds singing love everywhere.
A boy, with his heart overflowing,
In his innocence having no care.

But the music fades fast; faster still when I'm trying,
Though memories leave echoes behind.
Like the chords of that song, now lost in confusion,
My innocence lost back in time.

I can't find the peace that should come with the learning,
I can't find the meanings at all.
And the time won't come back, it just taunts from a distance,
I still hear old innocence call.
I hear, but can't answer the call.