Chorus:
I need some time to think, but I lack the time to sit
Perhaps some time to drink would not be time spent as a twit
I lack the time to think of time in any timely way
But in time my timely thinking time may yet appear some day
The time that I spend working comes to forty hours a week
Another way to spend that time is something I should seek
And yet you'd say I still time a plenty to just for me
There's one hundred eight and twenty hours left that you can see
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But still you haven't figured on the time it takes to drive
I lose twenty hours more a week of the time that I'm alive
And evry day my body does betray my wakeful state
so fifty plus hours evry week until the sleep abates
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Let's not forget to eat and drink so that I can survive
So eighteen hours more are spent in hopes that I will thrive
Then friends will call upon my time, what little I can spare
And twenty hours more a week just vanish to the air
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So now it's time for cleaning up although I must confess
My apartment isn't very nice, inside my car's a mess
And pots and pans from cooking which I like to do a lot
means I lose ten more hours every week with which to plot
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My fav'rite TV shows are on at times I get to view
So ten more hours disappear, I think I'm feeling blue
I really need some time to read for reading is my vice
Which takes away five hours more, it's over in a trice
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I shouldn't leave out all the time I ponder on my life
Three hours more on politics and trees and why no wife?
And then the time spent writing songs and talking on the web
Leave my free time minus nineteen hours, understand my dread
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I lack the time to think and I lack the time to plan
I wish I had more time to drink, I truly wish I can
My time in time will be more timely, and soon I do aspire
Else I'll not have the time til fifteen years past I retire!
Jacob Sommer
May 9, 2000