Time Is Ticking -- Gloria Estefan

Memories, a summer breeze  I’m on the bus almost getting home
Out on the street, Miami heat  I miss the smell of my Dad’s cologne
And it seems to me like a melody  My favorite song on the radio
When you know   Turn it back before it goes

My front door, the corner store  Climbin’ the tree in my old backyard
My mother’s smile from ear to ear  When I got all A’s on my report card
I can see them all when I close my eyes  It doesn’t seem that long ago
When you know  You turn it back before it goes

Time is tickin’ away, but it was just yesterday,  Though it’ll never be gone,
We gotta live for today  Ice Cream from the Dairy Queen  On the corner by the
Orange Bowl  My Grandma’s voice always tellin’ me  I’d understand when I was old
You can make mistakes, it’ll be ok  But when you learn it’s a pot o’ gold
When you know   To turn it back before it goes

Time is tickin’ away,  Everything you live and you do
Becomes a part of you, so  You’ll get back what you spread around
Everything you think and you say  Is gonna show up some way
So why not always take the higher ground   Time is Tickin’ Away, But it was just yesterday,Though it will never be gone,  We’ve got to live for today
Time is Tickin’Away,                                                                      (sing365.com)

The sole ballad on Miss Little Havana finds Gloria reflecting on her memories of growing up in Miami. Nostalgia is a frequent element in her music and here she recalls such simple things as the "smell of my dad's cologne."                (songfacts.com)




             

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