Later Than Sooner

LATER THAN SOONER

Here I am marking another anniversary

Of the day my mother brought me in this world

Another digit in the sequence of ascending numbers

Watching time slip by me in a blur

I can’t keep from feeling smothered by the smoke that takes my breath

Coming from the candles on my cake

Long in the tooth and long game running short on time

Leaves me wondering how it got so late

It’s later than sooner, time is slipping through my hands

I don’t know how it happened

But the tide’s washed away my line in the sand and

It’s later than sooner, I wish that I could understand

This long shadow of a younger man

It’s already evening here comes the moon

I wish I’d have known that later comes before soon

Here I am in my 57th winter

Somehow I’m always shocked that it’s so cold

Another year’s slipped by it almost went unnoticed

I wonder how on earth I got to be so old

It’s later than sooner, time is slipping through my hands

I don’t know how it happened

But the tide’s washed away my line in the sand and

It’s later than sooner, I wish that I could understand

This long shadow of a younger man

Cause it’s already evening here comes the moon

I wish I’d have known that later comes before

Soon or later it all comes to pass

I’ll be just a footnote in time

Until then I’ll make each day that I last

Like it’s the last one of my life

It’s later than sooner, time is slipping through my hands

I don’t know how it happened

But the tide’s washed away my line in the sand and

It’s later than sooner, I wish that I could understand

This long shadow of a younger man

Cause it’s already evening here comes the moon

I wish I’d have known that later comes before

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