Time is gonna take so much away

But there's a way that time can offer you a trade

Time is gonna take so much away

But there's a way that time can offer you a trade

You gotta did something that you can get nicer at

You gotta did something that you can get wiser at

You better did something that you can get better at

'Cause that's the only thing that time will leave you with

'Cause time is gonna take so much away

But there's a way that time can offer you a trade

It might be cabaret it could be poetry

It might be trying to make a new happy family

It could be violin repair or chemistry

But if it's something that takes lots of time that's good

'Cause time is gonna take so much away

But there's a way that time can offer you a trade

Because your looks are gonna leave you

And your citys gonna change too

And your shoes are gonna wear through

Yeah time is gonna take so much away

But there's a way that you can offer time a trade

You gotta did something that you can get smarter at

You gotta did something you might just be a starter at

You better did something that you can get better at

'Cause that's the thing that time will leave you with

And maybe that's why they call a trade a trade

Like when they say the
You should go and learn a trade

The thing you did don't have
To be to learn a trade

Just get something back from
Time for all it takes away

It could be many things it could be anything

It could be expertise in
Middle Eastern traveling

Something to slowly sow
The balance life's unraveling

You have no choice you have
To pay time's price

But you can use the price to
Buy you something nice

Something you can only buy with lots of time

So when you're old you blow
Some whippersnapper's mind

It might be researching a book
That takes you seven years

A book that helps to make the path
We take to freedom clear

And when you're done
You see it started with a good idea

One good idea could cost
You thousands of your days

But it's just time that you'd be spending anyway

You have no choice you have to pay time's price

But you can use the price to
Buy you something nice

So I've decided recently

To try to trade more decently