Long before you ever saw your chances   You were going to burn this city down   Tired of the fashions and the dances      Tired of the people standing around   Ticking like a bomb in the night   And you knew you were right      Black and white      Blame it on the time it took to leave here   Blame it on the ones who slowed you down   Blame it on the kind of friends you knew here   Blame it on the sickness going 'round      Going round and round in the night   With your heart out of sight   With your world burning bright   Like a moth 'round a light      Black and white   The pictures of a life in flames   Black and white   The picture of a life remains      And the search you half remember   Setting out on at the start   Is burning like an ember in your heart      Time running out time running out   For the fool still asking what his life is about   Time running out time running out      Time running out time running out   Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt   Time running out time running out      Tell them that you've gone to find a person   Someone you lost track of long ago   Tell them that it's someone you need worse than   Anybody else you'll ever know      Ticking like a bomb in the night   You were strong, you were light   You were fast, you were bright   Then you were gone in the light      Black and white   The pictures of a life in flames   Black and white   The picture of a life remains      And the high ideals and the promise   You once dressed the future in   Are dancing in the embers with the wind      Time running out time running out   For the fool still asking what his life is about   Time running out time running out      Time running out time running out   Yeah, beyond a shadow of a doubt   Time running out time running out