Now as the wheel of life turns fasterNow as the season seems to flyI see so many things at lastBut you don't see the time go byI've known delight, I've known disasterThe caviar, the humble pieFrom the absurd to the sublimeI didn't see the time go byI didn't see the years roll byI didn't know the road would bendRefused to see when youth was gonePretending it might never endAnd now there is a price to payFor every day I throw awayIt seems I wasted half a lifetimeWithin the blinking of an eyeI didn't hear the midnight chimeI didn't see the time go byI didn't see the time go byIn stolen nights and brief romancesI kissed the girls and made them cryWhere there were balconies to climbI didn't see the time go byI was the guy with all the answersThe halfway truth, the little lieSo sure, so certain in my primeI didn't see the time go byI hit the heights, I beat the dirtI left some wreckage in my wakeI didn't see the lies that hurtI didn't know how hearts can breakAnd now they come to haunt my mindThe lives I touched and left behindI've sang a hundred songsOf longingOf sweet regret and hope run dryI've searched for melody and rhymeBut never saw how time can flyNever saw the darkening skyNever saw the darkening skyI was a minstrel of my timeWho did not see the timeGo by