text: The choice was mine, and mine completely
  I could have any prize that I desired
  I could burn with the splendor of the brightest fire
  Or else, or else I could choose time
  Remember I was very young then
  And a year was forever and a day
  So what use could fifty, sixty, seventy be?
  I saw the lights, and I was on my way
  And how I lived, how they shone
  But how soon the lights were gone