I've seen time pass by   Summer days to winter nights   My smiling face to bitter eyes   I've seen time go   I look back and wonder why   I didn't realize the times   Change as fast as birds can fly   But now I know      That nothing lasts forever   Nothing we do will hold all this together   Nothing lasts forever   But it's so hard to say goodbye      I remember carefree days   Swimming in the ocean waves   The future was an open space   When we were young   We never thought our lives would change   Now they seem a world away   Youth is lost on youth they say   And now I've learned      That nothing lasts forever   Nothing we do will hold all this together   Nothing lasts forever   But it's so hard to say goodbye      Hold on to all we had, don't let me go   Hold on, hold on, don't let me go      Nothing lasts forever   Nothing we do will hold all this together   Nothing lasts forever   But it's so hard to say goodbye