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• Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the joy of livin' is gone. -- John Cougar, "Jack and Diane
• The thrill is gone, the thrill is gone baby.
• Life goes on day after day [after day]...
• Oh don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and none goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
• Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger.
  He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure....
• Such a long long time to be gone.
• But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Lycidas, Line 37...