I Was Born - The Magnetic Fields

I was born

I hate this part

Being someone new

Being torn

Seeing someone who died as you grew

Growing older

Is killing a child

Who laughed and smiled at anything

Growing colder

And less and less wild

And learning to sing

I was young

Then not so young

Scary either way

One more rung

Down that black ladder every day

One more floor

Down the elevator

To oblivion

What fun

But the singularly awful one

Is being born