Jeffrey Lewis, The Jrams - Time Trades lyrics

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 cities 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
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 travelling
Something to slowely sure to
Balance lifes 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, which you will
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 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