DON’T WASTE A SINGLE HEARTBEAT

You’re lying in your crib now
Your body is brand new
I have some things
I need to say to you
Life will go very fast
You’ll think you have forever
One day you’re at a high school dance
the next your hair is silver

Don’t waste a single heartbeat
on things you can’t control
The sun is gonna rise
The winter wind will always blow
And through it all, your heart will beat
with love you come to know
With every pulse in its own time
is how your life will go
Slow down
Don’t waste a single heartbeat

It took me years to figure out
that life has its own timing
and if I said it all was great
you’d know I was lying
I finally came to understand
it’s easier to trust
that what you need is what you have
and what you have is love