Where Did the Time Go?

WHERE DID THE TIME GO? When I was seven, ten minutes took forever Christmas was a lifetime down the road Summer took its time getting here And every mile was somewhere I had never gone I watched that clock above the classroom Swore the hands were standing still Couldn’t wait to get a little older Couldn’t wait until Funny what you wish for When you think you’ve got forever Where did the time go? I swear it used to crawl Now the days run into weeks And I barely see them fall I spent my whole damn childhood Waiting for my life to start Now I’d give anything To make one hour last Where did the time go? At twenty, summers still had names At thirty, years began to blur Forty came while I was working Fifty showed up without a word Then somebody said, “Remember when?” And I said, “That wasn’t long ago” They laughed and said, “That’s twenty years” Jesus Christ—where did it go? Where did the time go? I swear it used to crawl Now the days run into weeks And I barely see them fall I spent my whole damn childhood Waiting for my life to start Now I’d give anything To make one hour last Where did the time go? Maybe time never changed at all Maybe I’m the one who did Maybe life was moving just as fast When I was still a kid But everything was new back then Every road, every face, every door Now the things I’ve seen a thousand times Don’t leave footprints anymore So take the long way home tonight Call somebody you still love Go somewhere you’ve never been Look around and look enough ’Cause someday this day you’re wasting Will be one you’d pay to know And you’ll close your eyes for just a minute— And ten years will go. Where did the time go? Now I finally understand Seven years old, begging that old clock To move its goddamn hands Now I’m asking those same hands For just a little more Funny how forever Gets shorter than before Where did the time go? When I was seven Ten minutes took forever Now forever Ain’t long enough.