Who are we fooling Trying to hide behind The shadows of what we once were Lines on our faces No longer tell the tale Now that we've stopped wanting to conquer And the heights that we would try for Are now too hard to climb And the rights that we would die for Are in another space and time Time is the answer Not the reason for tainted dreams Time is the answer Not the rival that it seems Just like an old page Out of a tattered novel With all its words faded away The stars in our eyes Have all lost their shine
We're too content with yesterday And the dreams we had to guide us Are too far out of sight And the rebel once inside us Is now too weak to try and fight Time is the answer Not the reason for tainted dreams Time is the answer Not the rival that it seems And the heights that we would try for Are now too hard to climb And the rights that we would die for Are in another space and time Time is the answer Not the reason for tainted dreams Time is the answer Not the rival that it seems