Life Speeds Up

The clouds in the sky

Are all rushing by

A stare's just a backwards glance



The years and the days

Are all melting away

Yet you still won't take a chance



But life speeds up

Don't you know? Don't you know?

Life speeds up

Then it goes away



The push and the throb

The threat of the mob

The crack's not a secret this time



The mouths and the doors

That I can't shut anymore

Keep running, you're falling behind



But life speeds up

Don't you know? Don't you know?

Life speeds up

Then it goes away



The world spins alone

And the weight of it groans

I get dizzy just turning the page



The air holds us down

And we're stuck on the ground

Trying to slip off our age



But life speeds up

Don't you know? Don't you know?

Life speeds up

Then it goes away



Come to the window, come to the door

Given under my hand, given under the law

I gave you everything you still want more

They gave you some mad forgotten war



Now it's time to slow things down

Because I told you life speeds up



Tell me how it happened, did it hurt? Did you cry?

Did you ever feel yourself falling out of the sky?

Did you ever lie awake and wonder why?

Did you ever fall asleep and dream that you died?



Now it's time to slow things down

Because I told you life speeds up

And up and up



We grind to a halt and we start again

We come to a corner but it's only a bend

And all those broken promises, they never mend

Who cares if it's mad when it's only pretend?



Now it's time to slow things down

Because I told you life speeds up

Now it's time to slow things down

Because I told you life speeds up