Time Does Betray - Phillip Mills, June 2008 TTTO: Those Were the Days, by Gene Raskin (performed by Mary Hopkins) Once upon a time we found a cavern Where we worked to build a shopping mall. Some old homeless relic hiding in there Wasn't gonna slow us down at all. Time has betrayed you, friend. Too bad life had to end Beneath a pile of gravel, sand, and clay. You stood with haughty poise, Your last spell lost in noise For power tools don't care what words you say. When they dug him out, his smile still lingered. Maybe he died thinking of his youth. If we hadn't cut through, he'd be stuck there: Ramp support for parking level two. Chorus #2: Time has betrayed you, friend. Too bad life had to end Beneath a pile of gravel, sand, and clay. You stood with haughty poise, Your last spell lost in noise Time does betray, oh yes, time does betray. After cops left, I looked in the cavern, Thought I heard a wind and felt a ghost, Had a vision of a future toy store, Selling plastic wizards by the gross. [Chorus #2] I got called into the boss's office. He looked at me with standard foreman's frown, Asked what I was doing at that work site: Said, "Artie, *your* job's half-way across town." [Chorus #2]