This Is the Time (Album Version)-Billy Joel

[ti:This Is The Time] [ar:Billy Joel] [al:Greatest Hits Vol. III] [by:] [offset:0] [00:31.64]We walked on the beach beside that old hotel [00:39.01]They're tearing it down now [00:41.32]But it's just as well [00:46.43]I haven't shown you everything a man can do [00:53.67]So stay with me baby [00:56.17]I've got plans for you [00:59.85]This is the time to remember [01:03.78]Cause it will not last forever [01:07.21]These are the days to hold on to [01:10.89]Cause we won't although we'll want to [01:14.57]This is the time [01:18.26]But time is gonna change [01:21.94]You've given me the best of you [01:25.25]And now I need the rest of you [01:31.42]Did you know that before you came into my life [01:38.92]It was some kind of miracle that I survived [01:46.40]Some day we will both look back and have to laugh [01:53.27]We lived through a lifetime and the aftermath [01:59.69]This is the time to remember [02:02.25]Cause it will not last forever [02:07.12]These are the days to hold on to [02:10.99]Cause we won't although we want to [02:14.73]This is the time [02:18.23]But time is gonna change [02:21.84]I know we've got to move somehow [02:24.91]But I don't want to lose you now [02:31.16]Sometimes it's so easy to let a day slip on by [02:38.27]Without even seeing each other at all [02:45.88]But this is the time you'll turn back and so will I [02:53.73]And those will be the days you can never recall [02:59.84] [03:16.48]And so we embrace again behind the dunes [03:23.71]This beach is so cold on winter afternoons [03:30.76]But holding you close is like holding the summer sun [03:38.25]I'm warm from the memory of days to come [03:44.00]This is the time to remember [03:48.48]Cause it will not last forever [03:51.67]These are the days to hold on to [03:55.97]But we won't although we'll want to [03:59.15]This is the time [04:02.96]But time is gonna change [04:06.71]You've given me the best of you [04:10.51]But now I need the rest of you