Time
1. Ticking away, the moments that make up a
dull day,
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you
fritter and waste the hours in an offhanded way.
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Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town,
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waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain,
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you
are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today.
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And
then one day you find ten years have
got behind you,
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no
one told you when to run, you missed
the starting gun.
2. So you run and you run to catch up with the
sun, but it's sinking,
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racing around to come up behind you again.
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The
sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older,
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shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time,
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plans that either come to nought or half a page of scribbled lines.
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Hanging
on in quiet desperation is the English way,
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the
time is gone, the song is over,
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thought I'd something more to say.