In time
you will have to stand on it.
There is no time
to pull up your socks or fix your hair.
You won't get a better deal elsewhere.
There is no elsewhere.
There is no anywhere except here,
no time but now.
The cheese will keep.
No stopping for a pint.
Tell Audrey you'll have to call her back
because now you have to stand on it.
We all must finish tuning
and finally play a tune.
The world is waiting to waltz away
and polka around the sun.
Your fiddle's fit to bend a note.
The drummer stands and waits.
The air is ripe with festival.
The dancers gather around the fountain
A girl in a green dress takes the arm
of a man with the stars in his hair.
Count the measure and strike up.
Now, now, now.