If We've No Time Lyrics

Washington Metro, eight a.m

January, two thousand seven

It was an experiment

As the master set to play

He took his violin from it's case

He tuned it up and set his face

His sweet notes filled the empty space

For all the people on their way

And the air filled with the music

Of a master at his best

Shubert's Ave Maria

He played Bach, and all the rest

And in an hour a thousand people walked right by

Never knowing what was right before their eyes

If we've no time to hear the music

That is filling up the room

Or to gaze upon a flower

In the glory of full bloom

If we've no time to sit a moment

Hear what the world might have to say

If we've not time to hear the music as it plays

What else might we be missing every day

For an hour the people came and went

No applause, no acknowledgement

Thirty-two dollars, seventeen cents

Was all that he had made

When only just two nights before

A hundred dollars at the door

Boston symphony hall could hold no more

When this same man took the stage

No one at L'Enfant Plaza

Knew the player was Joshua Bell

On a three-million-dollar Stradivarius

Masterpieces played so well

And only seven people took the time to hear

The greatest gift to ever land upon their ears

If we've no time to hear the music

That is filling up the room

Or to gaze upon a flower

In the glory of full bloom

If we've no time to sit a moment

Hear what the world might have to say

If we've not time to hear the music as it plays

What else might we be missing every day

W.H.Davies said it clear

If we've got no time to stop and hear

What is this life so full of care

We have no time to stop and stare

If we've no time to hear the music

That is filling up the room

Or to gaze upon a flower

In the glory of full bloom

If we've no time to sit a moment

Hear what the world might have to say

If we've not time to hear the music as it plays

What else might we be missing every day

If we've not time to hear the music as it plays

What else might we be missing every day