Time
-You can have all the money in the world, but I can't say the same about time...-
It can't be put in the garbage so time can't be wasted
This is my time though, I can almost taste it
Days, weeks, months, years
Blood, sweat, sleep, tears
All the time I feel there isn't enough hours in a day
Losing an hour is like a soul being taken away
Every day death is a result of a car crash
Every week a house fire turns flesh to ash
Every year...
An ocean is created by a tear
Time, time, time, seconds, minutes
Time is like money to us, we don't know how to spend it
Like with money, we don't budget our time
We'd all be incarcerated if it were a crime
Think of all the people you know that after high school take a few years vacation
They don't really see college as a destination
Now at 25 they decide to go back to school
Because being a couch potato wasn't cool
That's 6 or 7 years wasted on nothing
When you could've went to school and made a $45,000 salary or something
Growing up I watched people my age or older waste time so badly
I decided to learn from that mistake gladly
And to think people take shortcuts financially by drug dealing
Stealing
The time you spend in jail, does it sound appealing
You can't make money serving time in jail
That's all people care about but can you take it to hell?
If you manage to get it down there, it'll be the victim of the blaze
Time is the ally of our age
Speaking of time they say we're running out of it
That's why I'm anxious to find the woman to spend the rest of my life with
With a real rare gift
Why race the time
Surely it's more fast
Why waste the time
Surely it's not trash
Time to pay for our crimes? Ironic?
Time is running like Sonic
The opposite of Karma, because it doesn't come back around
Way past due getting my feet off the ground
You hear that alarm, it's so loud
I'm proud, but we pretend not to hear a sound
Copyright © Richard-Jamaal Keen | Year Posted 2010
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