Precious Time (Live At The Roundabout Theatre, New York City/1986)

Precious Time (Live At The Roundabout Theatre, New York City/1986) - Joe Jackson

A million tiny lights are strung across the western sky

They burn to light our mission

But its just a million lonely hearts

Strung out from never asking why

We burn with blind ambition

I heard somebody say

I don't regret my wedding day

But somethings wrong

Its not the same

I'm lonely and Id start again

If I had the time

Precious time

But I don't ask much

Just to keep in touch

And waste a little of your precious time

Waste a little of your precious time

A million dollars never justified a million lies

To jockey for position

And if two hearts can't beat as one

How can a million souls survive

In this world of suspicion

I heard somebody say

I dream about my wedding day

Through lonely nights

I dream of you

A lover though a friend would do

Id find him if I had the time

Precious time

But I don't ask much

Just to keep in touch

And waste a little of your precious time

Waste a little of your precious time

I don't ask that much

Just keeping touch

And waste a little of your precious time

And just a smiles enough

Just some of that human stuff

And waste a little of your precious time

Precious time