Time Trades Songtext

von Jeffrey Lewis

Time is gonna take so much away
But there's a way that time can offer you a trade.
Time is gonna take so much away
But there's a way that time can offer you a trade.
You gotta do something that you can get nicer at.
You gotta do something that you can get wiser at.
You better do something that you can get better at
'cause that's the only thing that time will leave you with.
'Cause time is gonna take so much away
But there's a way that time can offer you a trade.
It might be cabaret.
It could be poetry.
It might be trying to make a new happy family.
It could be violin repair or chemistry.
But if it's something that takes a lot of time that's good.
'Cause time is gonna take so much away
But there's a way that time can offer you a trade.
Because your looks are gonna leave you.
And your cities gonna change too.
And your shoes are gonna wear through.
Yeah, time is gonna take so much away
But there's a way that you can offer time a trade.
You gotta do something that you can get smarter at.
You gotta do something that you might just be a starter at.
You better do something that you can get better at.
'Cause that's the thing that time will leave you with.
And maybe that's why they call a trade a trade,
Like when they say that you should go and learn a trade.
The thing you do don't have to be to learn a trade
Just get something back from time for all it takes away.
It could be many things.
It could be anything.
It could be expertise in Middle-Eastern travelling.
Something to slowely sure to balance lifes unravelling.
You have no choice you have to pay times price,
But you can use the price to buy you something nice.
Something you can only buy with lots of time
So when you're old, which you will, some whippersnappers mind.
It might be researching a book that takes you seven years.
A book that helps to make the path we take to freedom clear.
And when you're done you see it started with a good idea.
One good idea could cost you thousands of your days,
But it's just time you'd be spending anyways.
You have no choice, you have to pay times price
But you can use the price to buy you something nice.
So I've decided recently,
To try to trade more decently.