This Is The Time - Billy Joel
We walked on the beach beside that old hotel
They're tearing it down now, but it's just as well
I haven't shown you everything a man can do
So stay with me baby, I got plans for you
This is the time to remember
'Cause it will not last forever
These are the days to hold onto
'Cause we won't although we'll want to
This is the time, but time is gonna change
You've given me the best of you
And now I need the rest of you
Did you know before you came into my life
Some kind of miracle that I survived
Someday we will both look back and have to laugh
We lived through a lifetime and the aftermath
This is the time to remember
'Cause it will not last forever
These are the days to hold onto
'Cause we won't although we'll want to
This is the time, but time is gonna change
I know we gotta move somehow
But I don't want to lose you now
Sometimes it's so easy to let a day slip on by
Without even seein' each other at all
But this is the time you'll turn back to and so will I
And those will be days you can never recall
And so we embrace again behind the dunes
This beach is so cold on a winter afternoon
Ah, but holding you close is like holding the summer sun
All warm from the memory of days to come
This is the time to remember
'Cause it will not last forever
These are the days to hold onto
'Cause we won't although we'll want to
This is the time, but time is gonna change
You've given me the best of you
But now I need the rest of you
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