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Let Time Go Lightly Lyrics

Artist: Harry Chapin
Album: Greatest Stories Live

I let time go lightly when I'm here with you,
I let time go lightly when the day is through.
I keep a watch on time when I've have work to do,
I let time go lightly with you.

Morning, a time for breaking ground and sowing seeds,
and yet we give up our sunshine
so we can buy what we need.
That leaves the evening, to share a fire with a friend or two,
to lose sight of the hours
To go lightly with you

I let time go lightly when I'm here with you,
I let time go lightly when the day is through.
I keep a watch on time when I've got work to do,
I let time go lightly with you.

Old friends, they mean much more to me than the new friends,
Cause they can see where you are,
and they know where you've been.
Music, has been my oldest friend, my fiercest foe,
cause it can take me so high,
(High.....) Yes it can make me so low.

When I was a child my mother would help me along
She'd rock me to sleep and sing me a song.
So I learned to love the music of all the tunes in my mind
the changing of chords, the rhythm of time.

I let time go lightly when I'm here with you,
I let time go lightly when the day is through.
I keep a watch on time when I've got work to do,
I let time go lightly with you.

Yes I let time go lightly with you, and a fire, and a friend or two
With you and a fire and a friend or two
A friend or two and you

Comments/Interpretations

by Helena on 6/25/2008 12:30pm
Love It!

by Marc on 4/16/2009 12:44am
Every time I read a Chapin lyric my mind travels back to the times I was fortunate enough to see Harry in concert.

Harry is one of my hero's. Not because of his music but because of the man he was.

Harry will always live on in my mind.

by Jonathan Chapin on 12/18/2010 1:08pm
Steve Chapin, HC's brother, arranger and producer, is the author of this song