Before The Parade Passes By

I heard a line in a movie that stuck me as true. The movie was about someone dying and yet they wanted to fill as much in in the time they had left and not just sit and die bit by bit each day and the line used in the film was

'Don't die before you die.'

Think about that for a moment.

'DON'T DIE, BEFORE YOU DIE.'

In other words

LIVE - FILL YOUR DAYS - LIVE DAY TO DAY and as the song below says, 'Before the Parade Passes By.'

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Before The Parade Passes By

Song by Barbra Streisand ‧ 1969

From the film Hello Dolly.

Before the parade passes by

Before it all moves on, and only I'm left

Before the parade passes by

I've gotta get in step, while there's still time left

I'm ready to move out in front

Life without life, has no reason or rhyme left

With the rest of them

With the best of them

I wanna hold my head up high

I need a goal again

I need a drive again

I wanna feel my heart coming alive again

Before the parade passes by

Before the parade passes by

I've gotta go and taste Saturday's high life

Before the parade passes by

I've gotta get some life back into my life

I'm ready to move out in front

I've had enough of just passing by life

With the rest of them

With the best of them

I can hold my head up high

For I've got a goal again

I've got a drive again

I wanna feel my heart coming alive again

Before the parade passes by

When the parade passes by

Listen and hear that brass harmony growing

When the parade passes by

Pardon me if my old spirit is showing

All of those lights over there

Seem to be telling me where I'm going

When the whistles blow

And the cymbals crash

And the sparklers light the sky

I'm gonna raise the roof

I'm gonna carry on

Give me an old trombone

Give me an old baton

Before the parade passes by !

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Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Jerry Herman

Before The Parade Passes By lyrics © Edwin H. Morris & Co. Inc.

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