Temporary Lyrics

The universe was quiet and still

Everything was very chill

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A dense singularity

Explodes into infinity

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The dinosaurs looked to the sky

Not knowing they were gonna die

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Species came and species went

Extinguished by random events

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Nothing lasts forever here

Ev'rything becomes so last year

There's nothing we can do or say

To keep the things we love from going away

First time I went to Disney World

Folks thought I was a cute blonde girl

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That trip is in the distant past

Fading mem'rys barely last

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Nothing lasts forever here

Ev'rything becomes so last year

All tears will dry

All scars will heal

And someday I

Will change the way I feel

There's nothing we can do or say

To keep the things we love from going away

Everything will disappear

Nothing lasts forever here.

Not long ago this wasn't even a tune

Jay put the music down and pretty soon

I added words one by one

And then there was a song where there was none

It's an alchemy we can't explain

Sometimes we try and try to little gain

And even when we do succeed

We can't remember how we did the deed.

You and I are just the same

Losing players in an ancient game

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Still we play, the play is the thing,

For princes, princesses, queens and kings

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We strut and fret upon the stage

Until tragedy or just old age

Makes us

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You go until you hear the gong

And of course even this song is

Temporary.

Nothing lasts forever here

Ev'rything becomes so last year

All tears will dry

All scars will heal

And someday I

Will change the way I feel.

There's nothing we can do or say

To keep the things we love from going away

Everything will disappear

Nothing lasts forever here.