I will take you swimming follow me.
We'll make time where there is none, for the sea.

I will keep on living incomplete,
As long as I still wake up from my dreams.
We'll never see the end of our own street,
If we don’t make time where there is none, move your feet!

I’ll build you a boat out of lightning and fill it with pearls,
We’ll float to the worlds end, touch it, return
Just to prove the impossible possible;
Sure you’ll be there where our time comes.

You feel the same thing we’re waiting and waiting,
And stop, I feel faint from accepting this terrible loss,
The time, you thought, you’d saved is just gone;
We’ll make time where there is none!

Build you a boat with fake diamonds and fill it with stars,
Hear the base drums so far off. Be there tomorrow,
Get some rest all that’s left, a few hundred miles
We’ll make time where there is none!

You feel the same thing we’re waiting and waiting,
And stop, I feel faint from accepting this terrible loss,
The time, you thought, you’d saved is just gone;
We’ll make time where there is none!

You feel the same thing we’re waiting and waiting,
And stop, I feel faint from accepting this terrible loss,
The time, you thought, you’d saved is just gone;
We’ll make time where there is none!


Lyrics submitted by ZombinaSkeletone, edited by gren

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    I always see the Muppets singing this song... one of their big productions with everyone on stage. It seems appropriate, the message of doing what you can NOW being worth infinitely more than the time where there is none!

    (Close your eyes, listen to this, and picture Muppets singing and dancing... it should make you smile)

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