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Key: C
Intro:
C G C
Verse 1:
C F C
What is time worth? Is it worth the mortgage on your house?
F C G C
Is it worth all of the places that you always dreamed about?
F C
And where does time go? Is it stored up in a cloud?
F C G C
Does it live inside the memories of the past you have allowed?
Chorus:
G F C
Pictures from a time before in color or black and white
G F G
Every days a time machine, every second, every night
Am G C F
Every single heartbeat and every single laugh
C G C G C
Is time well spent for a man
Verse 2:
C F C
What does time cost? The aging aches and the pains,
F C G C
Everyone you’ve ever known and loved who’s gone away
F C
And what does time know? Well, it knows where you have been
F C G C
But it does not know where you will be or where you’ll go again
Chorus 2:
G F C
The futures in the distance, ready to be sowed
G F G
Waiting with a gift, the present of right now
Am G C F
Every breath you take, for everyone who can't
C G C
Is time well spent for a man
Interlude:
G F C G F G
Am G C F C G C
Verse 3:
C F C
How does time speak? Through the voices in the wind,
F C G C
Through the colors of the sunset or the wrinkles on your skin
F C
And what does time think? About the years that have gone by,
F C G C
It must be a burden knowing that you’ll never die
Chorus 3:
G F C
Oh the times they are a changin, but for time they stay the same
G F G
When you and I are in the dirt, ol’ time will still remain
Am G C F
Every single heartbeat and every single dance
C G Am
Is time well spent for a man
Outro:
G C F C G C
Is time well spent for a man
Song History
Published: April 19, 2025
Last Updated: September 10, 2025