[Lyric] Timing (Original Broadway Cast of "Grind")

[HARRY]
(Over the P.A.)
And now, for our family audience, here they are - Little Romaine, and her Dear, Old Granny!

(Onstage. SOLLY, dressed as "Whistler's Mother", sits in a rocking chair in a giant picture frame. ROMAINE, dressed as a little girl, a bow in her hair, sits at "Grandma's" knee.)

[ROMAINE]
My dear old Granny used to hold me
As she told me what life would bring
"To everything, there is a season
And the reason for everything"

("GRANDMA" nods approvingly.)

Granny filled my cup with the truth she'd see
No prophet of old could surpass 'er
"Better listen up!" she explained to me

(Rising)

As she straightened her antimacassar
(During the following, she begins to strip, "GRANDMA" growing more and more agitated as the strip progresses.)

There's a time to get
And a time to have
And a time to
Let it go

There's a time to hide
All the things y' got
And a time to
Let 'em show

A time to plant
And then you pluck up that which is planted
Like Granny said
"It's give and take
Don't take it for granted"

It's in the timing
The timing
There's a season for it all
A time for spring
And a time for something to fall

There's a time to keep all your secrets in
And a time to - bare your heart
There's a time to stitch
And to patch and sew
And a time to
Pull apart
A time to hurt
And then you lay on that which is healing
Like Granny said
"You want the fruit
You better start peeling"

It's in the timing
The timing
There's a time for everything
A time for fall
And a time for something to spring

There's a time to save
What you gathered in
And a time to - cast aside
There's a time to hold
And a time to bind
And a time to - come untied

The bells were chiming
Chiming
As Granny raised her head
"How's this for timing... timing...?"
Those were the last words Granny said

So when the time comes
When there's nothin' left
To peel
Or shed
Or doff
(Flinging off the hairbow)

Like my Granny said

(Bumping and grinding her way to the wing)

"It's time to get
Off!"