Tables Turn, And Matches Burn

by Alan Kim Cochran

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Tables Turn, and Matches Burn
By Alan Kim Cochran

Ever wish that you could have
Lived someone else’s life?
Their fame, affluence, beauty too
‘Had someone else’s wife?

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

Tables turn, and matches burn
And smoke upon the wind
And what was only yesterday
Will never be again

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

For my life, was always
Green on another’s hill
And all my friends had everything
It seemed that way, until

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

Tables turn, and matches burn
And smoke upon the wind
And what was only yesterday
Will never be again

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

Time can take from any man
All that he can acquire
And chance can play a hand with time
And take all we desire

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

Tables turn, and matches burn
And smoke upon the wind
And what was only yesterday
Will never be again

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

And now I stand upon their place
‘Watch others in their tears
And they all dare to envy me
But, watch me as the years….

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

Tables turn, and matches burn
And smoke upon the wind
And what was only yesterday
Will never come again

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn
Turn, turn, turn

Turn, turn, turn