Time slips away - KMurdock Music Group
Remember when summer felt like forever
June to August was a whole lifetime
Waiting for Christmas took a year and a half
Now December hits before I'm done with July
Used to count the minutes till 3:15
School bell ringing felt so far away
Now I blink twice and Monday's here again
Weekends disappear with Saturday go
Ten years old and an hour felt like prison
Sitting in church watching that clock crawl
31 and years just blurred together
Can't tell you what I did last fall
Birthday candles multiply too quickly
Swear I just turned 21 last week
But the calendar says different, baby
Time's playing tricks on me
When you're five, a year's a fifth of everything
20% of all you've ever known
At 30, it's just 3% and shrinking
That's why these days won't slow down
The more life that you live, the less each day weighs
Against all the ones that came before
Yeah, time speeds up 'cause we got more to measure
And I can't make it slow down anymore
First kiss felt like it lasted hours
Heartbeating through my whole body
Now relationships pass in seasons
Three years gone like three months, honestly
People always said,"Just wait, you'll see"
When I complained about being bored
Now I understand what people saying
Ain't got no time to be bored anymore
Friends I swore I saw just yesterday
Turn out I haven't seen since May
Promises to catch up real soon
But real soon turns to someday
Looking at my little cousin
She thinks an hour's eternity
I want to tell her to hold on tight
'Cause it's gonna pick up speed
When you're five, a year's a fifth of everything
20% of all you've ever known
At 30, it's just 3% and shrinking
That's why these days won't slow down
The more life that you live, the less each day weighs
Against all the ones that came before
Yeah, time speeds up 'cause we got more to measure
And I can't make it slow down anymore
Every birthday's a smaller fraction
Of the story that I'm telling
What felt massive now feels tiny
In the rearview, it's all relative
Time keeps moving, keeps moving
So I'm trying to pay attention to these seconds as they pass
'Cause I know when I'm 60, today will have been a flash
But knowing doesn't change the physics of the heart and mind
The more memories you're holding, the faster moves the time
When you're five, a year's a fifth of everything
20% of all you've ever known
At 30, it's just 3% and shrinking
That's why these days won't slow down
The more life that you live, the less each day weighs
Against all the ones that came before
Yeah, time speeds up 'cause we got more to measure
And I can't make it slow down anymore
Can't slow it down, no
Spinning faster every year
Can't slow it down, no
Spinning faster, crystal clear
Can't slow it down
Why time flies, now I know
The math of getting old
Can't slow it down, can't slow it down