Like ghosts on open windows   The curtains rise and fall   The past is a foreign country   At the dark end of the hall      And the morning is an offering   To the shelter of the day   But the violent come   And they bury it away      Time goes by at the speed of life   Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night   Faster than the skin breaks on the edge of a knife   And we just go on at the speed of life      Like questions begging answers   The stars appear at night   What's it mean to love somebody   What's it mean to be alive      I heard a little girl laughing   At her first sight of snow   Saw an old man dying   In a room, he didn't know      While the world turns through the ages   It's a most peculiar ride   Holding on to one another   Moving at the speed of life      We just go on at the speed of life   A family on the midway in the carnival lights   Moving in a circle through the sounds and the sights   And it all goes by at the speed of life      Time goes by at the speed of life   Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night   Faster than the skin breaks, baby   On the edge of a knife      And we just go on and on at the speed of life   Moving at the speed of life, speed of life   On and on and on and on   On and on and on and on