Days to Years Lyrics

Once I met a man who I could swear was older than time itself

He lived in a home for the old and the lonely

He asked if he could hold my hand, and told of his old hot dog stand

And about all his children who never visit anymore

I asked if he were angry, and if he wanted to pray

But he just looked at me, and then he looked away

And he said

"Days turn to years, turn to centuries that fly

Who of us can know the day we will die?"

Once I met a boy, he was only seventeen

He told me he was sick with something he couldn't see

He asked if he could hold my hand, and he told me about all his plans

How he would travel all over the world and the seven seas

I asked if he were frightened by what he could not see.

At first he didn't answer, but then he looked at me

And he said

"Days turn to years turn to lifetimes that fly

Who of us can know the day we will die?

So, live while you're still alive,

And give while you have the time

Because before you know it, it just blows away

If only trees could tell the tale of all they've seen

In all their time; they grow so tall

How many loves? How many lives? How many summer skies?"

Oh, days turn to years turn to centuries that fly

Who of us can know how many

Days turn to years turn to centuries that fly

Who of us can know

Not one of us can know the day we will die.