Meanwhile

Lot of things are different than they seem

There's a lot of ways to wind up chasing someone else's dream

Full speed ahead and flying blind

Sometimes the things you need get left behind

I used to think I wanted everything

I never gave much thought to of all the trouble that it might bring

You end up countin' all day long

All that wealth needs watching when you're gone

And meanwhile summer turns to fall

And roses bloom and fade

Life goes on, you can measure it all

By the difference that it made

If I was God, which of course, I'm not

I wouldn't be that good, but I'd be easier to spot

Maybe I'd ease upon right and wrong

And emphasize the need to get along

Some years you can't believe how fast time runs

But I have seen days you cannot kill it with a gun

Maybe life's a race, maybe it's a game

Either way it plays out about the same

And meanwhile, summer turns to fall

Roses bloom and fade

Life goes on, you can measure it all

By the difference that it made

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

One thing we cannot afford

Is not to see how life should be its own reward

The good, the bad, the beauty, and the scars

Count them as the blessings that they are

'Cause meanwhile

Roses bloom and fade

Life goes on, you can measure it all

By the difference that it made

By the difference that it made