Candles On A Cake lyrics

Lit candles of the cake

Once thought cheated

In youth most joyful

Least number of lights

Yet when we are aged

The cake is aglow in flame

Lacking breath to quench

The raving inferno of wax

To make a wish

To blow out ALL the candles

And tell no one lest

It would not come true

In age the wish is e'er the same

To be young once again

There is no one to tell

And no cake to cut or eat

Standing long and ragged

By winds and seasons

Another ring to the periphery

As though an ancient sequoia