Time Is On My Side

I can sit right here

And eat my cake

That’s what you need to know

The devil frosting

The devil believes

And what does the devil believe in?

The devil believes in time

The greatest gift

That god ever gave the devil

Was the watch on your wrist

And the ding dong ding dong

Because no matter what you do

I got time

No matter how good it gets

I got time

No matter how the healing

Goes for you

And how far you think

You can run

See--

I got time

There’s a reason

That song goes--

Tiiiiiiime is on my side

Because the Stones

Understood

The devil

They understood--

The Beatles were about light

They were about Jesus

Bigger than him, maybe

But they pulled themselves

To light

The Stones didn’t do that

The Stones were rock ‘n roll

The Beatles were pop

And you know that

Because when you listen

You hear darkness

In the Stones

Because rock ‘n roll

Pulls you towards

The things

You don’t want to see

To the things

You want to do

But don’t want

To see yourself doing

And if you don’t want to do it?

That’s okay

I got time

Now god has time too

That’s true

God’s got the same time

I do

But does it feel that way?

Because see

Damage makes a dent

And goodness

Makes an impression

And impressions fade

But a dent?

You gotta do something

About a dent

And it’s not easy, right?

Not easy

When the time comes

For you to bend to it

You gotta bend pretty far back

The other way

To erase what it is you did

When you felt that time

Come down on you

Goodness is impermanent

In a way that the stain of evil

Never is

And all that hopelessness

You’re feeling right now

Listening to me talk

Isn’t just what I’m saying

It’s the acknowledgment

Of the persistence

And strength

Of time

Because, you see,

It’s not on your side

And it never has been

Not unless you want to

Dance the way I dance

And if you do

That’s fine with me

We can dance all night

I’ll tell you one thing about me

I love to dance