Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody

Caught in the middle, Carol, we're middle class

We're middle aged, we were wild in the old days

Birth of rock n' roll days, now your kids are coming up straight

My child's a stranger, I bore her but I could not raise her

Nothing lasts for long

Nothing lasts for long

Nothing lasts for long

Down at the Chinese Café

We'd be dreaming on our dimes

We'd be playing, "Oh, my love, my darling"

One more time

Uranium money is booming in the old hometown now

It's puttin' up sleek concrete, tearing the old landmarks down now

Paving over brave little parks, ripping off Indian land again

How long, how long, short-sighted business man?

Ah, nothing lasts for long

Nothing lasts for long, no

Nothing lasts for long

Down at the Chinese Café

We'd be dreaming on our dimes

We'd be playing, "You give your love so sweetly"

One more time

Christmas is sparkling out on Carol's lawn

This girl of my childhood games with kids nearly grown and gone

Grown so fast like the turn of a page

We look like our mothers did now when we were those kids' age

Nothing lasts for long

Nothing lasts for long

Nothing lasts for long

Down at the Chinese Café

We'd be dreaming on our dimes

We'd be playing, "Oh my love, my darling

I've hungered for your touch

A long, lonely time

And time goes by so slowly

And time can do so much

Are you still mine?

I need your love

I need your love

Godspeed your love to me"

Time goes, where does the time go?

I wonder where the time goes