Fortune's a Chameleon, Changing Shade

Music: Maio Maduro Maio.
By Lovira.
Performed by Lovira at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

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Fortune's a chameleon, changing shade
As one embraces, or does not, one's fate.
Ties that bind one to an ordered life -
Having children with a loving wife -
Endure, though passions pale and friendships fade.
Remember, then, to hug the life you made,
Singing, singing as you celebrate.

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