Your shutters are wide open
But your soul’s a locked gate
Your memory plays on but dims
Like a flower about to fade
I’ve hung upon your laughter
I’ve hung like a slave
But I ain’t got time to wait

I’ve got no time to wait for
Your love to unfold and bloom
Till all your pretty Romeos
Are sent back into the gloom
No time to wait until you cease
Following teenage ways
I ain’t got time to wait

All those summer evenings
Torn waiting for your call
The hope for deliverance
From betting on a dead horse
You broke into my troubled life
And you broke in like a raid
But I ain’t got time to wait

I ain’t got time to wait
No matter how pretty your face
This life’s too short to waste
I ain´t got time to wait

After many years have passed
I look at it today
I still remember that evening
in that bar at the lakeside bay
You even came home with me
but all I did was play guitar
I just wasn’t man enough

I ain’t got time to wait
Meant simply I was afraid
Of you pushing me away
I ain’t got time to wait

I ain’t got time to wait
For I’m living this life and I learned to shape my fate
I see it differently now and the meaning has changed
I ain’t got time to wait

I ain’t got time to wait
I’m crystal clear now and I’m feeling wide awake
I was just a little boy and now I’m a man
I ain’t got time to wait