Time Trades

D             A            E
Time is gonna take so much away
              D                 A           E
But there's a way that time can offer you a trade
D             A            E
Time is gonna take so much away
              D                 A           E
But there's a way that time can offer you a trade


          A                             E
You gotta do something that you can get nicer at,
          A                             E
You gotta do something that you can get wiser at,
           A                             E
You better do something that you can get better at
                  D               A                   E
'Cause that's the only thing that time will leave you with


       D             A            E
'Cause time is gonna take so much away
              D                 A           E
But there's a way that time can offer you a trade


            A                    E
It might be cabaret, it could be poetry,
            A                          E
It might be trying to make a new happy family,
   A                         E
It could be violin repair or chemistry,
            D                    A                   E
But if it's something that takes lots of time that's good


       D             A            E
'Cause time is gonna take so much away
              D                 A           E
But there's a way that time can offer you a trade.


             D                        E
Because your looks are gonna leave you
         D                       E
And your city's gonna change too
         D                            E
And your shoes are gonna wear through


     D             A            E
Yeah time is gonna take so much away,
              D                A            E
But there's a way that you can offer time a trade.


          A                             E
You gotta do something that you can get smarter at,
          A                                E
You gotta do something you might just be a starter at,
           A                             E
You better do something that you can get better at
       D                     A                   E
'Cause that's the thing that time will leave you with.


D    A    E    x4


          A                   C          E
And maybe that's why they call a trade a trade,
               A              C              E
Like when they say you should go and learn a trade;
              A                C             E
The thing you do don't have to be to learn a trade,
                   A                  C            E
Just get something back from time for all it takes away.


            A                        E
It could be many things, it could be anything,
            A                           E
It could be expertise in Middle Eastern traveling,
             A                             E
Something to slowly sow the balance life's unraveling


            D                  A          E
You have no choice you have to pay time's price
            D                A                 E
But you can use the price to buy you something nice
          D            A                E
Something you can only buy with lots of time
               D                 A                E
So when you're old you blow some whippersnapper's mind.


            A                                 E
It might be researching a book that takes you seven years
            A                                 E
A book that helps to make the path we take to freedom clear
                A                              E
And when you're done you see it started with a good idea


         D                   A                 E
One good idea could cost you thousands of your days
              D                  A           E
But it's just time that you'd be spending anyway

            D                  A          E
You have no choice you have to pay time's price
            D                A                 E
But you can use the price to buy you something nice


A    C            E
  So I've decided recently
A    C                 E
  To try to trade more decently