Like ghosts on open windows

The curtains rise and fall

The past is a foreign country

At the dark end of the hall



And the morning is an offering

To the shelter of the day

But the violent come and they bury it away



Time goes by at the speed of life

Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night

Faster than the skin breaks on the edge of a knife

And we just go on at the speed of life



Like questions begging answers

The stars appear at night

What's it mean to love somebody

What's it mean to be alive



I heard a little girl laughing

At her first sight of snow

Saw an old man dying

In a room he didn't know



While the world turns through the ages

It's a most peculiar ride

Holding on to one another

Moving at the speed of life



We just go on at the speed of life

A family on the midway in the carnival lights

Moving in a circle through the sounds and the sights

And it all goes by at the speed of life



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Time goes by at the speed of life

Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night

Faster than the skin breaks, baby

On the edge of a knife

And we just go on and on at the speed of life

Moving at the speed of life

Speed of life



On and on and on and on

On and on and on and on