Letra de On the edge of a cliff

I´m really okay, thanks,
there´s nothing to witness
I said as I looked back from the edge of a cliff
The old man looking down lent over the ridge struck with a grin as if a blessing had hit him.

I slumped on the jut of the cliff
Just leave me alone, this is none of your business
I will, said the old man, but just one thing,
And what he said was so lovely it stunned me.

He said: I lay right there once at the edge of the rock.
I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost,
But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot

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For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors has survived
Every single person on your mum and dad´s side
Successfully looked after and passed on to you life.
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile.

And then the old man walked away and out of sight
Til the sound of him hiking turned to the sound of silence.
I just froze in a profound surprise and from down on my pride I
found a smile to my eyes.

And for many days again I´ve been passing the same cliff and on
many occasions I´d chance on the same thing.

Laying in the moss, in the same way I was would be another man
looking like he needed a change of luck.

So I´d say: I lay right there once at the edge of the rock.
I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost,
But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot

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