Time's Lament: An Original Song
Sometimes we experience time in a dream-like state, fluctuating from moments we want to save in a locket, to moments we just want to lock away. When reality is stranger than fiction, the passage of time takes on a new form. We seize the present, only to have a vague sense that we have been there before. We think of time as a straight forward, linear thing, but some moments pass in a flash and others not soon enough. We always wish that we had more time, yet we are thankful when time does its magic and ghosts fade like holograms into the night. Maybe time offers us a sorting device where we can pick and choose what memories are worthy of preserving. Most of all, time tells us to be the best version of yourself today. If you are waiting for someday to be that person, time is not on your side.
Thank you to Chris Bihuniak of Rock Band Academy Studios! Not only has he been my producer for years, but as a mentor has taught me so much.
~ GPF
Time’s Lament
By Grace Piper Fields
We were hiding in plain sight
Meeting under the streetlight
Another hour gone and this feels like a dream
It’s also a nightmare too
I see your eyes in the moonlight
Tears frozen like frostbite
Carpe diem nights
You taste like deja vu, ooo
If moments could materialize
I’d put this one in a locket
If I was in a sinking boat
would you try not to rock it?
My smile didn’t match my eyes
Until you painted it on like a disguise
But time’s not on your side
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
I left your shadow by the dockside
It wasn’t said, but it was implied
Carpe diem nights
You taste like deja vu, ooo
If moments could materialize
I’d put this one in a locket
If I was in a sinking boat
would you try not to rock it?
My smile didn’t match my eyes
Until you painted it on like a disguise
But time’s not on your side
Whoo!
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
Ooo ooo, message from the divine
Hit me like a marquee sign
Ooo, ooo it was the night of Waterloo
You bid your last adieu-ooo
Fade in and out of sight
Like hologram headlights
Ooo, ooo escape artist in the night
If moments could materialize
I’d put this one in a locket
If I was in a sinking boat
would you try not to rock it?
My smile didn’t match my eyes
Until you painted it on like a disguise
But time’s not on your side
Whoo!
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
Bum bum bum bum dum ba dum bum bum
bum bum bum ba da
But time’s not on your side
Would you toss your very last dime
In the fountain of time?
Would you toss your very last dime
In the fountain of time?
Would you toss your very last dime
In the fountain of time?
