Now is now And you will never sit right here again In the same position With the same thoughts in your head Your foot is dangling down from the chair And your toes move slowly inside your shoe Now is now, like in an elevation The floors pass by as you're going down The upper line of each door Followed by handles and narrow windows All disappearing into the roof above Until you're finally down on the ground And somehow you can't grab it! Time is made of all these rows And they can be too small to handle Sometimes even to remember You hold on, you cling To one particular moment Only to find there's another going on And the next already on it's way Now is now and then was then - No use wishing it back Another place, a different person: Heavy boots made patterns in the snow She wore a hat that wasn't hers Only for a moment, still, an eternity And now, she can only wonder Where that hat might be And sometimes it grabs you! Time is made of all these now's And once in a while they're just too much And they get stuck in your head And you struggle, and you fight Each and every moment Even if there's another going on And yet another on it's way Now is now and I will never Sing this song like I just did With this expression in my voice And the same motion in my body And the feeling behind the eyes My hands turned numb Until at last, I almost forgot Where I put them.