Joe Walsh Decades Lyrics

Decades Lyrics

Minutes turn to hours, counting seconds tick away.



Another day
tomorrow, tomorrow's just another day.



Days turn into years, and time
goes by, over and over,



Again and again, and then, years turn into
decades.



Decades. Start another decade, times ten.



Ten
decades, one hundred years.



Ten decades. And the first ten started
going so much faster,



Than the whole one hundred years
before.







And the second ten we started fighting.



We
fought the war to end all wars.



So somebody named the twenties
roaring,



And in the thirties we fought some more.



And the
fighting went on and on (and on);



Nobody could stop it (stop it, stop
it)



So somebody built a bomb (bomb);



All you had to do was
drop it (drop it), right or wrong.



They dropped it; they dropped
it.



And toward the end of the forties, after the storm, I was
born.







I am calling, across a field, from far away, far
away.



This is my calling song; I am worried, I am
concerned.



There are reasons, can't be explained.



And there
are questions, that have no answers.



That's the reason I want to know:
how long, how long, can this go on?



I want to know how long, how
long,



When so many things happen, nothing gets done.



So many
wars, no one ever won one, and no one ever will,



No one ever
will.



I am calling, this is my calling song.







And
the fifties were the best I guess, except for the fighting



And the
sixties were unrest, oh yes, we went to the moon.



We had hopes, we had
dreams,



And sometimes late at night it still seems like,
Camelot.



And the seventies lasted 'til May.



And on the hill,
that day, I gave up and started writing Decades.



And the eighties were
a waste of time, and here we are, in the nineties!



Nine in a row, one
more to go, oh! Over and over, again and again.



One hundred years; ten
years times ten.



So many things happened, nothing got done.



So
many wars, no one ever won one.



Decades, decades