I'm cutting off the telephone   You unplug the TV   At the rate life's passing us by   We can't take the time to breathe   I know you can't turn time around   But maybe there's a way to slow it down      Sipping iced tea from a back porch swing   Laying by a river as the world runs by   Making sweet love while the mockingbird sings   We can try putting the breaks on time      When did we last have a heart to heart talk   Over a glass of wine   Or stop and watch the grass grow   Or smell a honeysuckle vine   We can't put the sand back in the hourglass   But we could hold each other, baby   And make this weekend last      Sipping iced tea from a back porch swing   Laying by a river as the world runs by   Making sweet love while the mockingbird sings   You and I putting the breaks on time      Putting the breaks on time   Yeah, yeah, yeah      We can sip an iced tea from a back porch swing   Lay down by a river as the world runs by   Make sweet love while the mockingbird sings   Can't stop the clock but we can sure enough try   To put the breaks   Put the breaks on time   Put the breaks   Put the breaks on time   We can slow it down, baby   And put the breaks on time   We can slow it down, baby   And put the breaks on time, yeah