Now as the wheel of life turns faster
Now as the season seems to fly
I see so many things at last
But you don't see the time go by
I've known delight, I've known disaster
The caviar, the humble pie
From the absurd to the sublime
I didn't see the time go by
I didn't see the years roll by
I didn't know the road would bend
Refused to see when youth was gone
Pretending it might never end
And now there is a price to pay
For every day I throw away
It seems I wasted half a lifetime
Within the blinking of an eye
I didn't hear the midnight chime
I didn't see the time go by
I didn't see the time go by
In stolen nights and brief romances
I kissed the girls and made them cry
Where there were balconies to climb
I didn't see the time go by
I was the guy with all the answers
The halfway truth, the little lie
So sure, so certain in my prime
I didn't see the time go by
I hit the heights, I beat the dirt
I left some wreckage in my wake
I didn't see the lies that hurt
I didn't know how hearts can break
And now they come to haunt my mind
The lives I touched and left behind
I've sang a hundred songs
Of longing
Of sweet regret and hope run dry
I've searched for melody and rhyme
But never saw how time can fly
Never saw the darkening sky
Never saw the darkening sky
I was a minstrel of my time
Who did not see the time
Go by