Tom Paxton - Time To Spare lyrics

I've been thinking about you lately I've been wondering where you are It's been years since we went rambling through the night You were gonna write your novel I was gonna be a star We were young and things were sure to work out right And oh, the nights were warmer then We were free from care Nobody wished us anything but well We had time to spare We had time to spare Revolution was a-comin' In the vanguard we would be We could feel the coming victory in our bones But the music started changing And one morning around three We decided we would all be Rolling Stones And oh, the nights were warmer then We were free from care Nobody wished us anything but well We had time to spare (we had time to spare) We had time to spare We started getting married And we started our careers Though we swore that deep inside, we'd stay the same The children started coming And they seemed to swallow years So we taught ourselves to play a different game Now, we read it in the papers And we watch it on TV All the politics The pa**ions in the air I've been thinking about you lately And how much you meant to me And how wonderful it was when we were there And oh, the nights were warmer then We were free from care Nobody wished us anything but well We had time to spare (we had time to spare) We had time to spare Oh, nobody wished us anything but well We had time to spare We had time to spare