Time Is Fire

[Verse 1]
Cursing her memory
Stabbing her cigarette
Out in a paper box
That used to hold donuts
She glares at the window
Her hazy reflection
Revealing new wrinkles
That she'd never noticed before

[Chorus]
Oh, I’m a ghost of a child
Long since gone
Didn't some poet say
"Time is fire, consuming us all"?
What was his name?
I don't recall

[Verse 2]
She says, "I wish that I could be
More like the Parthenon
All of time’s liberties
Just add to her dignity"
Sadly, more likе that old
Playhouse on Twelfth Street
She's fondly rеmembered
But nobody goes to her doors

[Chorus]
Oh, I'm a ghost of a child
Long since gone
Didn't some poet say
"Time is fire, consuming us all"?
God, what was his name?
I don't recall

[Outro]
Now I'm just killing time until
Time kills me
It's a matter of days
Be it thousands or hundreds or dozens
Or even just one
There's not much to be done
Unfortunately