A SONG

GONE BY

Mama said, “Do it now,

‘Cause time ain't waiting for none,

Your life’s there before you,

And you've only just begun.

A moment’s slip’s all it takes

And you fall like a pack of cards.”

Her words fell on deaf ears,

(Well, she was old) and,

I had no time for retards

I was too fast for her

Yeah, my technology!

Only, now I wish, if I could've heard

Her out, slow it down,

Now I clutch onto the stream

But the water flows past

It strips me, I'm nothing

No, it won’t last

The pendulum swings

And no one hears my cry,

It’s not coming back

No, time has gone by!

They preached and they pled

They whacked me on my head

Some pulled me down

So I learned to get up instead

"Your life’s your car

Go, steer it as you want!"

But, there’s only so much you can do

When you’re out of fuel

Before you even start

It’s a nightmare and it haunts, Oh!!

So I held on to the ground

But it’s broken beneath my weight

From between my fingers

The sand’s slipped away

The pendulum has swung

The seconds have ticked by

Now it won’t ever come back

The time has gone by!

‘Was so much I could do

That I needed to

Now no fear, no pain

Will bring it back again

And all that it’d ever be

Is what it’s always been

Just a dream!!

Now I clutch onto the stream

I try to awaken the dead

But the bullet’s left the gun

My sky’s a lead

But the pendulum has swung

The seconds have ticked by

Now it won’t ever come back

The time has gone by!

The time has gone by!

Mama said, “Do it now.”