When It's Time

WHEN IT'S TIME

WRITTEN BY J.R HILTON

2017

FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLL NEXT

IS NEVER KNOWN

WE NEVER SUSPECT

THEN IT HITS HOME

SOMEONE CLOSE ONE OF OUR OWN

BULLETPROOF IMMORTALITY SLIPPING AWAY

MEASURED BY YEARS.BLOOD SWEAT, AND SO MANY TEARS

TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO RACE THE SUN

REMEMBER WHEN YOU WISHED YOU WERE OLDER

NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE

YEARS WENT BY, YOU WATCHED THEM GO

BUT NEVER QUESTIONED WHY

THE LIST OF THINGS YOU NEED TO DO

YOU'VE LOST IT BUT IT'S CATCHING UP TO YOU 

SAD BUT IT'S TRUE

A RED LIGHT COMING ON

STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS

WHAT'S GOING ON

LITTLE VOICE IN YOUR EAR YOU NEED TO HEAR

DEATH IS NEVER FARAWAY FROM LIFE

JUST GO ON LET FATE DECIDE

HOW SHORT OR HOW LONG THE RIDE 

WHEN IT'S TIME IT'S DONE

MOVE ME TO TEARS OR THERE ARE NONE

WHO MET THEIR END THIS TIME

SPINNING SLOWLY TO A STOP

WHAT DEAR HEART I KNOW HAS STOPPED

ARE WE CONDITIONED TO BELIEVE 

LIFE GOES ON FOREVER 

AND IF IT DOESN'T

 THEN YOU DROPPED OUT OF THE GAME 

LEAVING US TO CARRY ON THE SAME 

 UNTIL WE EACH FORGET

ONE BY ONE UNTIL THE LAST ONE IS GONE

MAYBE WE SHOULD SAY GOODBYE NOW

WHO KNOWS AFTER ALL

WHO WOULD BE NEXT TO FALL

IT NEVER ENDS AT ALL

ALWAYS A STORM WHERE ELSEWHERE THE SUN 

EITHER PLACE THERE'S GONNA BE A STORM

I'VE COME TO TERMS WITH LIFE AND DEATH

AND YET I'M NOT SURE

I DON'T WANT TO GO JUST YET

I'VE GOT SOME THINGS TO DO

I'LL NEVER BE DONE WONDERING

UNTIL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO WONDER 

WHEN IT'S TIME IT'S TIME

THIS HEART IS GONE

LIKE A DARK MOONLESS NIGHT 

DARK AND SULLEN, LIFELESS LYING THERE

MY SOUL ACROSS THE SKY 

THIS WAS WRITTEN AS A DEDICATION
TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES
LOST IN THESE LAST FEW YEARS.
BLESS YOUR JOURNEYS