We walked on the beach beside that old hotel
They're tearing it down now, but it's just as well
I haven't shown you everything a man can do
So stay with me baby, I've got plans for you

This are the time to remember
Cause it will not last forever
These are the days to hold onto
Cause we won't although we'll want to
This is the time, but time is going to change
You've given me the best of you,
And now I need the rest of you

Did you know before you came into my life,
Some kind of miracle that I survived
Someday we'll both look back and have to laugh
We lived through a lifetime and the aftermath

This are the time to remember
Cause it will not last forever
These are the days to hold onto
Cause we won't although we'll want to
This is the time, but time is going to change
I know we have to move somehow,
But I don't want to lose you now

Sometimes it's so easy to let a day slip on by
Without even seeing each other at all
But this is the time you'll turn back to and so will I
And those will be the days you can never recall

And so we embrace again behind the dunes
This beach is so cold on a winter afternoon,
But holding you close is like holding the summer sun,
All warm from the memory of days to come

This are the time to remember
Cause it will not last forever
These are the days to hold onto
Cause we won't although we'll want to
This is the time, but time is going to change
You've given me the best of you,
And now I need the rest of you