The Time It Takes

So what's the point in letting go
If all I have to do
Is sit around and sing about you
Will I become another man
Who don't believe in love
A bitter, tired old cliche
With nothing else to say

Don't tell me how this ends
Cause I've waited for too long
Just to turn the other way
And take my chances
Off on my own again
So I'm holding on to
What you give, what I get
Cause it's all I have until
I forget again

Two wrongs never make a right
I know this to be true
But enough wrong turns can make a circle
So just take note of how things are
Cause someday they will be
Just the way that things were
How they used to be

Don't tell me how this ends
Cause I've waited for too long
Just to turn the other way
And take my chances
Off on my own again
So I'm holding on to
What you give, what I get
Cause it's all I have until
I forget again

The sand will fall and I'm aware
That some days I'll have it hard
But where did all of my time go
I've been dying just to start
And I'll take a break
When I think I've earned it
And I'll make mistakes
But I'll keep learning

Lord, tell me how this ends
Cause if I had known before
That five years later down the road
I'd be right back at the start
Then I'd stay awake
And I'd keep burning all
The hours of the day
But I'd keep learning
Oh, but the time it takes