Time You Waste - Steve Earle

Remember sitting on a doorstep

Oh with tears in my eyes

Already had my bags packed

And kissed my momma goodbye

Had my heart set on someone

That I didn’t even know

So tell me why

Still hurts me so

Cold afternoons

Oh momma’s off to work

Just home from school

Feeling lonesome and unsure

Getting wise to the streets

Keep them to my own

Just awake one day

Found out that I was grown

Oh, all the other ones

Only get one chance

Seeing life through the eyes of the innocent

Just to take it slow

Believe me

'Cause in time you’ll miss

Time you waste

Guess I’m now grown

For the first time in my life

Oh, I feel at home

In my heart and in my mind

Don’t think that I

Wouldn’t take every minute back

Just couldn’t bring myself

To live like that

'Cause all the other ones

Only get one chance

Seeing life through the eyes of the innocent

Yes, so take it slow

Believe me

'Cause in time you’ll miss

The time you waste

Yeah the time you’ll miss, babe

Is the time you waste