never have time for it all i wanna be a doctor, be a lawyer, an engineer, an astronaut. and run for congress, join the senate, be elected president. and learn to scuba, learn to fly, and learn to ski and hang glide. and write a novel, write a song,. write a movie, right some wrongs. and be a comic, be an actor, be a star and win an oscar. be a hermit, hibernate, get into yoga, meditate. and live in holland, live in france, new zealand, maybe switzerland. and learn italian, japanese, and french and hebrew, portuguese. and marry girls from montreal, and idaho and california. and learn piano, learn the harp, and saxophone, where do i start? i’ll never have time for it all, i’ll never have time for it all, and even if i should survive, until i reach a hundred five. i’ll never have time for it all, i wanna make a fortune, make a amends, and make a hundred million friends. and buy a house, and buy some land, and buy a boat and buy a plane. and have some kids, and have a wife, and have a family, have a life. and travel to antarctica, and europe, asia, africa. see every movie that’s worth seeing, maybe see ‘em once again. see every single twilight zone, and every mary tyler moore. read faulkner, poe, and hemingway, and shakespeare, steinbeck, and benchley. play centerfield with the yanks, and crank a homer in the seats. learn all about electronics, computers, cars, and politics. meet woody allen, paul mccartney, steven spielberg, it could be hard. find a way to cure old age, and cancer, baldness, heart disease. know physics and biology, and trace my genealogy. become a buddhist, a better jew, and learn the bible, old and new. have great sex with at least one girl, from every country in the world. know mozart, bach, and beethoven, and handel, holst, and mendelssohn. and maybe read the odyssey, the iliad and socrates. write letters to friends far away, improve my vocabulary. market all my inventions, and be just like thomas edison. and be in love my whole life long, and be remembered when i’m gone. and clean my house and clean my car, and pay my bills (“you’ve gone too far!”) © 1989 Bill Rosen/Banditunes Music