Running Like The Wind

I'm close enough to my youth

I can still smell the classroom

Where my kindergarten teacher gave me purple sticks of glue

I ran across the blacktop till I grew out of my shoes

Time back then was always on the move

Now I'm good and grown got two children of my own

They use the couch cushions to build fortresses of stone

My daughter turned three that means two is long gone

Time I guess is rolling rolling on.

And I can see the hand father time on my old man

I am not ready for the day that I let go of his hand

Our relationship is an hourglass that's losing sand

But I am such a busy busy man.

Someone help I'm asleep at the wheel

And every time I wake up I've lost another year

How do I forget over and over again

That time is running running like the wind

I heard of a man always thought in advance

Every day he spent crafting up tomorrow's plan

He made so much money and he shook so many hands

I don't know if his life ever began

Well that is a road I don't want to travel so

I tape my eyes open so I can watch my children grow

Then I go complaining how the days move so slow

Will I ever learn I do not know.

Someone help I'm asleep at the wheel

And every time I wake up I've lost another year

How do I forget over and over again

That every passing day is one that won't come back my way

That time is running running like the wind