v.1
My girl was two, I took her to the playground.
She found a stone shaped like an egg that filled her hand.
She reached up and grinning gave it to me,
You know I thought thought those days would never end.
(chorus)
I need time, before it slips away,
I need time, to learn how to love,
I need time, to make it all okay
There’s so much left to say… I need time (after v3. but there’s no time).
v.2
My wife was nineteen, when I first saw her,
A laughing treasure that I found among my friends.
Now fifteen years are gone and it seems I’ve barely loved her,
Can she forgive me, forgive me once again?
v.3
My dad was sixty-three when cancer took him.
In those last years we’d become friends.
The week he died, he looked me in the eye,
And without speaking said “my life here’s at an end”.
(musical bridge)
v.4
My boy is three now, and he tells me about Jesus,
And things he learned from mom and Sunday school.
I hold his tiny hand and stare up at the blue sky,
And I thank God for teaching this fool…
Now’s the time, before it slips away,
Now’s the time, to learn how to love,
Now’s the time, to make it all okay
Say what you have to say…
Pray what you need to pray… now’s the time.
words and music marc heinrich
©2004 further up & further in music
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