Is Now The Time

A young and restless spirit with a guitar on my knee

Are the words I write for everyone or maybe just for me

All the late nights on this highway all the hours in this car

Playing to another guys that works behind the bar

I keep dreaming of that moment when I'm standing in the light

I know it's true that things worth having don't come overnight

I can't help but ask myself how long is long enough

Is now the time to hang in there or time to hang it up

I've kept inching forward but how do you compare

A few less wooden bar stools to a few more county fairs

Of course my family must come first and I've got bills to pay

I have to have a 9 to 5 but it sure gets in the way

I guess I'm getting older not the kid I used to be

How much time do I have left in all reality

I can't help but ask myself how long is long enough

Is now the time to hang in there or time to hang it up

After 30 years of travel a million miles or more

I'll tell you young musicians careful what you're wishing for

I've seen the whole world over on someone else's dime

'Cause I've learned to turn a phrase and sometimes make it rhyme

My age is catching up with me of that there is no doubt

So many things I'd like to do and years of missing out

I can't help but ask myself how long is long enough

Is now the time to hang in there or time to hang it up