Lirik dan Chord Lagu There is No Time - Lou Reed

Lagu tersebut direkam di studio Mediasound Studio B, New York City, dan dirilis pada 1989.

“There is No Time” dimuat dalam album solo ke-15 Lou Reed yang bertajuk New York.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “There is No Time” dari Lou Reed:

[Intro]

D   Bm   Em   G   A
D   Bm   Em   G   A

[Verse 1]

                 D
This is no time for celebration
                 Bm
This is no time for shaking hands
            Em
This is no time for backslapping
                 G                                 A
This is no time for marching bands

                 D
This is no time for optimism
                 Bm
This is no time for endless thought
                 Em
This is no time for my country right or wrong
   G                               A
Remember what that brought

[Chorus]

                    D
There is no time
                    Bm
There is no time
                    Em
There is no time
                    G      A
There is no time

[Verse 2]

                 D
This is no time for congratulations
                 Bm
This is no time to turn your back
                 Em
This is no time for circumlocution
                 G                                A
This is no time for learned speech

                 D
This is no time to count your blessings
                 Bm
This is no time for private gain
                  Em
This is the time to put up or shut up
             G                                A
It won't come back this way again

[Chorus]

                    D
There is no time
                    Bm
There is no time
                    Em
There is no time
                    G     A
There is no time

[Verse 3]

                 D
This is no time to swallow anger
                 Bm
This is no time to ignore hate
                 Em
This is no time to be acting frivolous
                    G                       A
Because the time is getting late

                 D
This is no time for private vendettas
                 Bm
This is no time to not know who you are
         Em
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing
        G                               A
The freedom of who you are

                 D
This is no time to ignore warnings
                 Bm
This is no time to clear the plate
                    Em
Let's not be sorry after the fact
                   G                          A
And let the past become our fate

[Chorus]

                    D
There is no time
                    Bm
There is no time
                    Em
There is no time
                    G      A
There is no time

[Verse 4]

                 D
This is no time to turn away and drink
      Bm
Or smoke some vials of crack
               Em
This is a time to gather force
                G                       A
And take dead aim and attack

                 D
This is no time for celebration
                 Bm
This is no time for saluting flags
                 Em
This is no time for inner searchings
        G                 A
The future is at hand

                 D
This is no time for phony rhetoric
                 Bm
This is no time for political speech
               Em
This is a time for action
                     G                       A
Because the future's within reach

[Chorus]

                  D
This is the time
                  Bm
This is the time
                  Em
This is the time
                                G    A
Because there is no time

                   D
There is no time
                   Bm
There is no time
                   Em
There is no time
                   G      A    D
There is no time