My generation is the 21st century generation
Where lessons are free yet very costly
Where the wise act foolishly
Where people are knowledgeable yet stupid
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I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
Was it famine or scurvy-I fought it;
I hurled my youth into a grave.
I wanted the gold, and I got it-
Came out with a fortune last fall,-
Yet somehow life's not what I thought it,
And somehow the gold isn't all.
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