Time and time again I knew what I was doing and   Time and time again I just made things worse   It seems you see the most of what is really true when   You're stepping into your hearse      Only time can write a song that's really really real   The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels   And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals      And when I want to write a song that says it all at once   Like time sublimely silences the whys   I know that if I try I'm going to take a fall at once   And splatter there between my lies      Only time can write a song that's really really real   The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels   And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals      We are made of it and if we give submission   Among our chances there's a chance we can choose   And if we take it, by uncertainty's permission   Then it's impossible to lose      Only time can write a song that's really really real   The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels   And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals