yo, yo
I'm a live this track like a time machine
rewind it back to when I conceived
in the moment I wrote this, I believed
I could somehow hold this time for me
in a place and a state where my mind could meet
with a pen and a sheet and a timely beat
and it's then I pretend I had finally beat
back time but instead I would find defeat

all I got is my memories
one moment in time will never be
that long, it keeps movin' on
but I still got time for a song

all I got is my memories
one moment in time will never be
that long, it keeps movin' on
so I locked my time in a song

you can't pause the sand in the glass
like you've got both hands in a cast
you might detain one grain from it's path
but it will slip by and you can't get it back
it's gone, you can't hold on to the last
the next one's comin' and it's comin' in fast
it's blessed, stretched by the shadow it casts
but ticks don't ever get measured by a mass

all I got is my memories
one moment in time will never be
that long, it keeps movin' on
but I still got time for a song

all I've got is my memories
one moment in time will never be
that long, it keeps movin' on
so I locked my time in a song

the future's fantastic
past is a pageant
present is a gift like it's magick
wrap it up, after one moment it passes
you only get one chance to grasp it
clutch tight to the clock, the watch, whatever
the hands make plans for the flock
but never stop shifting in constant movement
the tock's reminiscent of a liquid
it's fluid, it's hot, it's hold, it's so consistent
it's not controlled by those resistant to change
and claim to name the difference
between two moments in time an instant
for instance, this little song I've written
probably only goes three minutes or so
and so I'm a flow to the finish
and know that I didn't just listen
I lived it

all I got is my memories
one moment in time will never be
that long, it keeps movin' on
but I still got time for a song

all I got is my memories
one moment in time will never be
that long, it keeps movin' on
so I locked my time in a song