Time Trades

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 city's 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
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 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 traveling
 Something to slowly sew to balance life's 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 you'll blow 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 that 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