Child, as I look in your eyes   You know my life seems like a minute   There I find living proof   Of all the wonder life hold in it      In the past I thought I had to learn   Any good that comes from this life we're living   Here and now, let us realize   That this life's gift and it's already been given      Someday when you stand in the middle   Like it or not you're gonna look both ways   You're gonna find that time is a riddle   Where days turn into years and years into the blink of an eye      Child, once I saw a man on the TV   Lead a nation up a mountain   He said, children, look over yonder   The flame of truth is burning brightly      Sometimes you look so far, there's only so much time   Only so many of us are gonna get there   Here and now is all we really have   But if we can make it count we got no reason to worry      Someday when you stand in the middle   Like it or not you're gonna look both ways   You're gonna find that time is a riddle   Where days turn into years and years into the blink of an eye      You're gonna walk that mile   You're gonna be in that number   You're gonna make that journey   Just like the good book says   There's a time to be born, a time to cross over