Time decides at birth Its mystery path of pain It hides inside our passions And plays its deadly game Time is kept by strangers When fear measures our lives Then time comforts the mourners Putting pennies on our eyes Time oh sweet time Minutes and hours arranged Time everlasting time Days and years unchanged Time spits out with rage When hard times turn mean The memories of goodness Locked inside a time machine Time remembers yesterday As merely more time lost A dance without music A commandment without cost Time oh sweet time Always reliving the past Time offers no apologies For the sand inside the glass Time values almost nothing With each uninvited embrace Pushing ahead with fury Then lagging behind in the chase Time celebrates our creations Time says all our goodbyes Time gets carved in granite As souls through time pass by Time oh sweet time On borrowed time every day As one by one the hours Tick all our time away
