doing the best we can watching the second hand it sometimes spins like a fan sometimes it stops days blur into weekends where does it go and then it seems like we re working with a broken clock because time it is not on our side the days are steps we take against a fate we can t deny if in the end we fade into the night then why should i why should i i i serve time remember who we have been looking at our children how did they get here and where do they go so fast if our lives get boiled down to who what when where and how then nothing outside of now can ever last because time it is not on our side the days are steps we take against a fate we can t deny if in the end we fade into the night then why should i why should i i i serve time doing the best we can years start and then they end blink and it s gone again we ve come so far when we re seven decades in will we still be holding hands watching our grandchildren i hope we are  time it is not on our side at last we drift black ash across the waves into the night in death i am set free from serving time so why did i 