Hands of Time

• Each morn the sun comes up
• each night it goes down
• next day and its right back up
• the world is spinning round

• they say that we have changed
• made the world a better place
• don't know if I'd agree
• there's no sense in the human race

• and I have looked at the hands of time
• winds have blown my way
• and I don't see any difference
• between yesterday and today....

• a worm crawls through the grass
• wants to be a butterfly
• newborn lifts up its head
• to watch an old man die

• the names have changed
• but it's all the same
• life goes on as before
• we build castles in the sand
• and wash away the shore

• and I have looked at the hands of time
• winds have blown my way
• and I don't see any difference
• between yesterday and today....

• a hungry child and a lonely man
• nothing new under the sun
• a butterfly in a spiders web
• the dreamer begins to run

• we covet what we do not have
• the poor seek shelter by and by
• so we live our lives in vain
• while the truth passes by

• and I have looked at the hands of time
• winds have blown my way
• and I don't see any difference
• between yesterday and today....