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Today is the day. Don’t let me hear you say
Tomorrow will do just as well.
Another day will disappear. Another week. Another year.
And where they all go, who can tell?
Time gets away from us. It never will return
All the countless moments that we waste.
Time gets away from us. And do we ever learn
From all the empty dreams that we have chased?
You mustn’t reminisce on chances that you’ve missed,
All the things you wish you’d done or said.
It’s better to forget whatever you regret.
Don’t look back when you should look ahead.
Time gets away from us, and we can’t get it back.
But what’s the use of living it again?
Time gets away from us. And isn’t it a fact
We’d make the same mistakes that we made then?
Like a scene that we all know, in a film from long ago,
The pages of the calendar blow past.
Now and then you sigh, as if you wondered why
The wind has to blow so fast.
Time gets away from us. We can’t set it aside.
The hour hand just goes on turning round.
Time gets away from us. And, hard as we have tried,
We’ve never found a way to slow it down.
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