Time Is Ticking

Memories, a summer breeze

I'm on the bus almost getting home

Out on the street, Miami heat

I miss the smell of my dad's cologne

And it seems to me like a melody

My favorite song on the radio

When you know

Turn it back before it goes

My front door, the corner store

Climbin' the tree in my old backyard

My mother's smile from ear to ear

When I got all A's on my report card

I can see them all when I close my eyes

It doesn't seem that long ago

When you know

You turn it back before it goes

Time is tickin' away, yeah

But it was just yesterday, yeah

Though it'll never be gone, yeah

We gotta live for today

Ice Cream from the Dairy Queen

On the corner by the Orange Bowl

My grandma's voice always tellin' me

I'd understand when I was old

You can make mistakes, it'll be ok

But when you learn it's a pot o' gold

When you know

To turn it back before it goes

Time is tickin' away, yeah

Time is tickin' away

But it was just yesterday, yeah

But it was just yesterday

Though it'll never be gone, yeah

Never be gone, never, never be gone

We gotta live for today

Got to live for today

Everything you live and you do

Becomes a part of you, so

You'll get back what you spread around

Everything you think and you say

Is gonna show up some way

So why not always take the higher ground

Time is tickin' away, yeah

El tiempo pasa y no vuelve jamás

Solo lo bueno quiero recordar

But it was just yesterday, yeah

Solo este día es el hay que vivir

Hacia adelante yo voy a seguir

Though it will never be gone, yeah

Solo te enseña la vida es verdad

Y lo que buscas lo vas a encontrar

We've got to live for today

Hay que vivir para hoy

Time is tickin' away, yeah

El tiempo pasa

But it was just yesterday, yeah

Y no vuelve jamás

Though it will never be gone, yeah

Solo lo bueno, solo lo bueno quiero recordar

We've got to live for today

Hay que vivir para hoy

Time is tickin' away

Y no vuelve jamás

Time is tickin' away

But it was just yesterday, yeah