Scales and clocks just can't be trusted
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Keys and locks are destined to be busted
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Metaphors were never made for keeping score
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And I'm feeling for the sound of time
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Is it the answer or just a suggestion
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Is love what we truly want or merely a protection
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Is this music made to last or crumble like a shell
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Is there heaven here on earth or is this really hell
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Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
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Only time will tell is there a message in this song
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Will it ever make sense will it ever ring a bell
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Only time will tell
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Are we destined to be ruled by a bunch of old white men
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Who compare the world to football and are programmed to defend
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I'd like to try a princess or a non-terrestrial
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Who is neither boast nor bashful is there really such a girl
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Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
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Only time will tell is there a message in this song
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Will it ever make sense will it ever ring a bell
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Only time will tell
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I woke up this morning feeling absolutely grand
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For nearly half a century I've been singing in a band
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I'd like to think I'll make it to two thousand and one
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Will the party be at my house God I wonder who will come
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Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
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Only time will tell is there a message in this song
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Will it ever make sense will it ever ring a bell
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Only time will tell
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Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
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Only time will tell is there a message in this song
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Will it ever make sense on this crazy carousel
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Only time will tell
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Only time will tell
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Only Time Will Tell
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| Jimmy Buffett |
