Billy Joel - This is the Time lyrics

We walked on the beach beside that old hotel
They're tearin' it down now
But it's just as well
I haven't shown you everything a man can do
So stay with me, baby i've got plans for you

This is the time to remember
Cause it will not last forever
These are the days to hold on to
Cause we won't, although we'll want to
This is the time but time is gonna change

You've given me the best of you
But now I need the rest of you

Did you know that before you
Came into my life
It was some kind of miracle that I survived
Some day we will both look back
And have to laugh
We lived through a lifetime
And the aftermath

I know we've got to move somehow
But I don't want to lose you now

Sometimes it's so easy
To let a day slip on by
Without even seeing each other at all
But this is the time you'll turn
Back to and so will I
And those will be days you can never recall

And so we embrace again behind the dunes
This beach is so cold on winter afternoons
But holding you close is like
Holding the summer sun
I'm warm from the memory of days to come