[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:09.72]I read about a man getting drowned once [00:12.87]His friends thought he was waving to them from the sea [00:15.25]But really he was drowning [00:17.75]And then I thought that in a way [00:20.38]It is true of life too [00:22.86]That a lot of people pretend [00:24.49]Out of bravery really [00:26.05]That they are very jolly [00:27.08]And ordinary sort of chaps [00:29.51]But really they do not feel [00:30.55]At all at home in the world [00:32.66]Or able to make friends easily [00:35.36]So then they joke a lot and laugh [00:37.17]And people think they're quite alright and jolly nice too [00:40.92]But sometimes that brave pretense breaks down [00:44.69]And then like the poor man in this poem [00:47.93]They are lost [00:50.88]Not waving but drowning