Time Is Ticking

Album: Miss Little Havana (2011)
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  • Memories, a summer breeze
    I'm on the bus almost getting home
    Out on the street, Miami heat
    I miss the smell of my Dad's cologne
    And it seems to me like a melody
    My favorite song on the radio
    When you know turn it back before it goes

    My front door, the corner store
    Climbin' the tree in my old backyard
    My mother's smile from ear to ear
    When I got all A's on my report card
    I can see them all when I close my eyes
    It doesn't seem that long ago
    When you know, you turn it back before it goes

    Time is tickin' away, yeah
    But it was just yesterday, yeah
    Though it'll never be gone, yeah
    We gotta live for today

    Ice Cream from the Dairy Queen
    On the corner by the Orange Bowl
    My Grandma's voice always tellin' me
    I'd understand when I was old

    You can make mistakes, it'll be OK
    But when you learn it's a pot o'gold
    When you know
    To turn it back before it goes

    (Time is tickin' away)
    Time is tickin' away
    (But it was just yesterday)
    It was just yesterday (Yeah)
    (Though it'll never be gone)
    Never be gone, never, never be gone (Yeah)
    (We gotta live for today)
    Got to live for today

    Everything you live and you do
    Becomes a part of you, so
    You'll get back what you spread around

    Everything you think and you say
    Is gonna show up some way
    So why not always take the higher ground

    (Time is tickin' away)
    El tiempo pasa y no vuelve jamás
    Solo lo bueno quiero recordar
    (But it was just yesterday, yeah)
    Solo este día es el hay que vivir
    Hacia adelante yo voy a seguir)
    (Though it will never be gone)
    Solo te enseña la vida es verdad
    Ya lo que buscas lo vas a encontrar)
    (We've got to live for today)
    Hay que vivir para hoy

    (Time is tickin' away)
    El tiempo pasa
    (But it was just yesterday)
    Y no vuelve jamás
    (Though it will never be gone)
    Solo lo bueno, solo lo bueno quiero recordar
    (We've got to live for today)
    Hay que vivir para hoy

    Time is tickin' away
    Y no vuelve jamás
    It was just yesterday Writer/s: EMILIO JR. ESTEFAN, GLORIA M. ESTEFAN, PHARRELL L. WILLIAMS
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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