Sometimes I try building some bridges,
And they all fall down.
And sometimes I might try to
wade right over,
Headed for that golden, seven-gated town,
And lately I just keep on walking,
Encouraged by some
loving up ahead inside,
But mostly I let time take away the sting.

You know it really puzzles me
now and then
To see the way we all can be--
Wanting so much the kingdom
and the power and the glory,
But we're never willing to be free.
My mother always told me,
"Everybody's got
the same 24 hours in every day,"
But far as I can tell, Mom, it's just time
Takes away the sting.

I never had much luck in love,
I guess it must be in the stars,
But I've learned two things
I thought I'd never learn--
To play my music and to drive a car.
Eventually we all get exactly
what we wanted,
If not exactly what we think
we may deserve,
But come what may,
I let time take away the sting.

Little things, they come to mean a lot,
Like waking with the one
you loved the night before,
And little words make
fairy tales and tragedies--
I love you--I don't love you anymore,
And little places take up all my room,
Like that place in your heart
you filled with someone else,
But in a little while, I know
Time will take away the sting.

Someday I want to break into
a motion picture
And be a moving picture of a star.
I'll cover Hollywood with a
mist of honest starlight--
I will go quite far.
I hear the big producers
are upset by competition
So I'll just say a few words and
stumble home with my reward:
I'll just whisper
"Time always
takes away the sting."

And if someone should ever
come to you in trouble,
Crying for what the past
did not and the
future may not ever bring,
Just tell them--
but not too soon--tell them
Time will take away the sting.