you can't catch a moment in time
except in your mind
when the rhythmn's gone
ain't nuthin' but an old song
that's lost it's rhyme

memories that have passed
livin' in the past
and the shadow
that it's cast
don't ya' know

try not to feel
try not to deal
will it ever heal?
somethings you can't conceal

lost in a memory
of just how it used ta' be
can't seem to see
tomorrow
because of yesterday's sorrow

you can't catch an old moment
in time
not in real time anyway
what can i say
i just play with today

not when you've lost
the rhythmn & the rhyme
not when it's real time

you just pay the cost
of what you've lost
'tossed to the wind
learn to know when
it's the END

you can't catch an old moment
in time
once it's lost it's rhyme
it's gone
so long
just an old song
livin' where it don't belong

there in your mind
so unkind
but you can't be blind
you can't not see
why thing's be
the way that they be

they way that they are
you went too far
for that shinin' star
so they be the way that they are

you can't catch an old moment
not in time nor in rhyme
once it's lost it's rythmn
it's a given
it's gone
just an old song
livin' where it don't belong

there in your mind
bein' unkind
but you can't be blind
you can't not see
why thing's be the way's that they be

you can't catch an old moment in time
except in your mind
how unkind
when there ain't no rythmn
and you've lost your rhyme

it's about time
you change your ways
go another ways
look for better days
than the past

look for love
that will last

past yeasterdays
and always
anyways

you can't catch a moment in time
except in your mind

there you might find
tomorrow or today
past the sorrow
of yesterday
you won't have to borrow
from today
to pay for yesterday

what can i say?

you can't catch an old moment
in time
except in your mind

except in your rythmn & your rhyme



(the catch phrase for this poem came from my daughter (stepahine...who's 18 and learnin to grow up...thank you steph for what i think is one of my best)