Wednesday, October 18, 2017

NICK OF TIME

From Bonnie Raitt - one of the GOATs IMHO.  Previous Raitt post here. 

Guitarist Bonnie on Keyboard



A friend of mine she cries at night
And she calls me on the phone
Sees babies everywhere she goes
And she wants one of her own
She's waited long enough she says
And still she can't decide
Pretty soon she'll have to choose and it tears her up inside
She's scared, scared she'll run out of time
 
I see my folks, they're getting old
And I watch their bodies change
I know they see the same in me
And it makes us both feel strange
No matter how you tell yourself
It's what we all go through
Those lies are pretty hard to take
When they're staring' back at you
Scared to run out of time
 
When did the choices get so hard?
With so much more at stake
Life gets mighty precious
When there's less of it to waste
 Scared to run out of time
 
Just when I thought I'd had enough
And all my tears were shed
No promise left unbroken
There were no painful words unsaid
You came along and showed me
How to leave it all behind
You opened up my heart again
And then much to my surprise
I found love, baby
Love in the nick of time
 
I found love, darling
Love in the nick of time
 
I found love, baby
Love in the nick of time
 
Songwriters: Bonnie Raitt
Nick of Time lyrics © Bonnie Raitt

4 comments:

  1. Henrietta Lacks8:10 PM

    I watched a Democrat political convention on TV one time and saw babies everywhere, but didn't want one.

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  2. Bizzy Brain6:14 PM

    Thanks for the post. Enjoy when you bring these "forgotten" musicians to your reader's attention. They are artists whose songs I remember (most of them anyway)and music it would not occur to me to look up on YouTube to re-enjoy. BWT, we used HeLa cells in lab work when I was a biology (zoology to be more precise) major at Purdue.

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  3. Thanks BB; and, I think that many biology folks have used HeLa cells somewhere along the line. There is now a book about the Lacks clan - haven't read it but know the gist.

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