How they hang around
Like echoes in a chamber
Floating in and out
From minor into major
Wanted you to feel like you could really trust me but maybe
I just don't deserve it
But when you think it through
I'm hoping that you
Realize that I have always been beside you
Sand between our fingers
Time is always movin' along
(Here and then it's gone)

I wanna be a real contender
Whether you see it or not
I know it's in there
Somewhere this thing that we got
For once in my life I am sure of something
For once in my life I am sure of something

I know my eyes deceive a brief and fleeting failure
They want what they don't need
I try to see it clearer
Changin' of the seasons
Time is always creepin' along
(Here and then it's gone)

I wanna be a real contender
Whether you see it or not
I know it's in there
Somewhere this thing that we got
For once in my life I am sure of something
For once in my life I am sure of...

Something there I should've noticed yesterday
But now my heart won't let me see it any other way

So I wanna be a real contender
Whether you see it or not
I know it's in there
Somewhere this thing that we got
For once in my life I am sure of something
For once in my life I am sure of something
For once in my life I am sure of something
For once in my life I am sure of something