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Lou Reed – There Is No Time (1989) | Track profile | Dork

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Lou Reed
New York
There Is No Time

TRACK

There Is No Time

Release date: 10th January 1989

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About This Track

"There Is No Time" is a track by Lou Reed, from the album New York, released 10th January 1989. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

There Is No Time

[Verse 1]

This is no time for celebration

This is no time for shaking hands

This is no time for backslapping

This is no time for marching bands

This is no time for optimism

This is no time for endless thought

This is no time for my country right or wrong

Remember what that brought

[Chorus]

There is no time

There is no time

There is no time

There is no time

[Verse 2]

This is no time for congratulations

This is no time to turn your back

This is no time for circumlocution

This is no time for learned speech

This is no time to count your blessings

This is no time for private gain

This is the time to put up or shut up

It won't come back this way again

[Chorus]

There is no time

There is no time

There is no time

There is no time

[Verse 3]

This is no time to swallow anger

This is no time to ignore hate

This is no time to be acting frivolous

Because the time is getting late

This is no time for private vendettas

This is no time to not know who you are

Self knowledge is a dangerous thing

The freedom of who you are

This is no time to ignore warnings

This is no time to clear the plate

Let's not be sorry after the fact

And let the past become out fate

[Chorus]

There is no time

There is no time

There is no time

There is no time

[Verse 4]

This is no time to turn away and drink

Or smoke some vials of crack

This is a time to gather force

And take dead aim and attack

This is no time for celebration

This is no time for saluting flags

This is no time for inner searchings

The future is at hand

This is no time for phony rhetoric

This is no time for political speech

This is a time for action

Because the future's within reach

[Chorus]

This is the time

This is the time

This is the time

Because there is no time

There is no time

There is no time

There is no time

There is no time

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Track details

From New York

1989

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Album

Release year

1989

—Last Great American Whale
—Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
—Xmas in February
—Hold On
—Busload of Faith
—Strawman
—There Is No Time
—Beginning of a Great Adventure
—Sick of You
—Dime Store Mystery
—Endless Cycle
—Halloween Parade

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Writer: Lou Reed
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