Lyrics Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Cash

Here we go around again

Curve of life spiraling

Everything we've ever known

As the seed of life gets blown

And the miracle of time

When will that time just end?

Remember, you decide to take that vow

Grab that ring it's not a whim, not a whim

When you'd be cashing in

Try to turn your life around

And all the things you do resound

And then you can't lose control

Say, your time has come and then

Hard to pinpoint find the seam

Where that one time ends

Where that time begins

Remember, you decide take to that vow

Take a stand, grab that ring

It's not a whim, it's not a whim

It's only time that you're cashing in

In the white noise of desire

We can't hear a single thing

Floating 'round the fragile bough

The afflictions of the human soul

It's beauty immaterial

You decide, stand along the fallen ones

Take revenge, defeated sons

Rend that coat from seam to seam

It's only time, it's only time

That you spend, you spend

It's only time, you spend

It's only time, you spend

It's only life that you're cashing in