Tired of lying in the sunshine
 Staying home to watch the rain
 You are young and life is long and
 There is time to kill today
 And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
 No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

 And you run and you run to catch up with the sun,
 But it's sinking
 And racing around to come up behind you again
 The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
 And shorter of breath and one day closer to death

 Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
 Plans that either come to naught
 Or half a page of scribbled lines
 Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
 The time is gone the song is over,
 Thought I'd something more to say
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