Standard (EADGBE)

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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 lots 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 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 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 sow the balance life's unraveling

 You have no choice you have to pay time's 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 blow some whippersnapper's 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 anyway

 You have no choice you have to pay time's price

 But you can use the price to buy you something nice

So I've decided recently

To try to trade more decently

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