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Now as the wheel of life turns faster |
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Now as the seasons seem to fly |
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I see so many things at last, but didn't see the time go by |
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I've known delight, I've known disaster |
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The caviar, the humble pie |
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From the absurd to the sublime |
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I didn't see the time go by |
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I didn't see the years roll on |
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I didn't know the road would bend |
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Refused to see when youth was gone |
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Pretending it might never end |
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Now, there is price to pay for every day I threw away |
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It seems I've wasted half a lifetime |
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within the blinking of an eye |
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I didn't hear the midnight chime |
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I didn't see the time go by |
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In stolen nights and brief romances |
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I kissed the girls and made them cry |
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While there were balconies to climb |
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I didn't see the time go by |
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I was the guy with all the answers, |
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the halfway-truths, the little lies |
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So sure, so certain in my prime |
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I didn't see the time go by |
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I hit the heights, I bit the dirt |
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I left some wreckage in my way |
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I didn't see that lies can hurt |
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I didn't know how hearts can break |
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And now, they come to haunt my mind, |
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the lives I touched and left behind |
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I've sung a hundred songs of longing, |
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of sweet regret and hope run dry |
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I've searched for melody and rhyme, |
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but never saw how time can fly, |
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newer saw the darkening sky |
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I was a minstrel of my time |
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Who did not see the time go by |
