I Was Born Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

I Was Born
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 singI was young -- then not so youngScary either way
One more rung down that black ladderEvery day
One more floor
Down the elevator
To oblivion -- what funBut the singularly awful oneIs being born