Martin Orford - The Time And The Season lyrics

There comes a time in life, you realise You've taken it all on trust And all those years of lies and compromise Have turned your dreams into dust So face to face with your mortality You let the bullets fly A chance to shoot down your reality And start to question why This is the time and the season To seek out the systems of change Don't waste your life getting even Or picking at twisted remains If you can take it or leave it You've got to move out to move on This is the time and the season To know when the moment has gone Do you know who you are? You've come this far As just a face in the crowd And just forced to hide your light way out of sight Afraid to speak out loud If you just toe the line, you'll do just fine Until they cut you down You'd better hope and pray it's not too late To turn your life around When others cloud your vision You've got to take control Accept a higher mission And live it heart and soul Can't exist on former glories Reputations fade so fast Time to tell a different story Make it good and make it last Sad to say, the golden summers of yesterday Seem a lifetime ago Gone with friends we left Forever at childhood's end With secrets only we know Now we face the cruellest winter The darkest age What chance survival? No choice but to feed on scraps From a gilded cage Our bitter rivals have thrown You and me, forced together or so it seems We grew in separate ways Some way back we lost the meaning Of what we had We left the pathway Too late to paper over the deepest cracks We reach into the unknown There is one world And it feeds no other earth Heaven just a broken promise A ghost of what we're worth And in one world We've the power to make it right Cut the ties with sacred knowledge And move into the light No trust in politicians Or gods to help us through Instead a recognition - it's all in you There is one world Stands alone in time and space Older than the distant stars Outlives the human race There is one world And we can't go round again Here for but the briefest candle Allowed to mortal men Don't wait to take your chances Go out and seize the day When inspiration dances And takes your breath away Can't exist on former glories Reputations fade so fast Time to tell a different story Make it good and make it last When others cloud your vision You've got to take control Accept a higher mission Believe it, live it heart and soul This is the time and the season To seek out the systems of change Don't waste your life getting even Or picking at twisted remains If you can take it or leave it You've got to move out to move on This is the time and the season You don't need a reason To take all the cards in your hand Throw them all into the air To see where they might land