long before you ever saw your chances you were gonna burn this city down tired of the fashions and the dances tired of the people standing around ticking like a bomb in the night and you knew you were right black and white blame it on the time it took to leave here blame it on the ones who slowed you down blame it on the kind of friends you knew here blame it on the sickness going round going round and round in the night with your heart out of sight with your world burning bright like a moth round a light black and white the pictures of a life in flames black and white the picture of a life remains and the search you half remember setting out on at the start is burning like an ember in your heart  time running out time running out for the fool still asking what his life is about time running out time running out time running out time running out yeah beyond a shadow of a doubt time running out time running out tell them that you ve gone to find a person someone you lost track of long ago tell them that it s someone you need worse than anybody else you ll ever know ticking like a bomb in the night you were strong you were light you were fast you were bright then you were gone in the light black and white the pictures of a life in flames black and white the picture of a life remains and the high ideals and the promise you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind time running out time running out for the fool still asking what his life is about time running out time running out time running out time running out yeah beyond a shadow of a doubt time running out time running out and you know it s true time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out time running out