"Charlie's World"
**Backstory Below**
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Welcome to Charlie's world--
It's magic;
And here in Charlie's world,
You'll see the stars.
The moon's about a mile high;
The planets passing by;
And Charlie isn't crying anymore.

You stand in Charlie's world,
And you're staring;
Welcome to Charlie's world,
I can't go far;
My feet will never touch the ground,
And there's the constant sound
This steel prison's quiet, endless roar.

Although I'm sleeping from neck down,
I'm alive to sight and sound;
And I sail in my machine
Like an iron submarine;
This life is mine, and I wouldn't give it up,
As I lie here, dreaming..

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This life is mine, and I wouldn't give it up,
As I lie here, dreaming..

Come into Charlie's world
And be daring;
'Cause here in Charlie's world
You won't go far;
Your feet will never touch the ground,
And there's the constant sound
The lovely prison's quiet, endless roar.

Although I'm sleeping from neck down,
I'm alive to sight and sound;
Nothing but sunshine in my heart,
And so I tell you---
I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive!
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SLOWSOUL.STY. Slow Soul - Smooth Jazz - Soulful
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Back Story:
As a child in the 1950's, Polio was a definite "thing", and the idea of iron lungs was real. I stumbled on the story of Paul Alexander, who until recently was the longest-living person in an iron lung. Extremely accomplished and incredibly positive, he wrote his memoirs: "Three Minutes for a Dog: My Life in an Iron Lung" by typing with a stick held in his mouth. I was telling an acquaintance about just having completed reading this book and, incredibly, he told me, "my father lived in an iron lung"...!! I was stunned, and asked him to tell me the story. He told me about his father, 'Charlie'...again, incredibly, my father's name is also 'Charlie'. I have found that when you are hit with unbelievable coincidences like this, there's the root of a song. "Charlie's World" borrows our fathers' name, applied to the story of Paul Alexander. If you also grew up during the "polio years", you'd find his real story fascinating.

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