this life keeps moving on gone away before too long so tell your friends just how you feel you 'd better say it loud for the world to hear 'cause it 's getting late , it 's time to go the paper moon is fading slow but the night , it keeps moving on 'til it takes you in ; it brings you home while you 're watching over the moments that make up your life it 's getting late , that 's the way it is you ca n't deny when it feels like this and it 's strange what it 's bringing out you 're gon na open up , 'cause you ca n't stop now oh , you ca n't stop now it 's getting late , you do n't know how you 're wide awake , but you 're missing out you get your kicks while you can then you go to work to pay the man while you 're watching over the moments that make up your life it 's getting late , it 's getting late it 's getting late , oh yeah , it 's getting late mark 's body was cremated on christmas eve at the westlawn-hillcrest funeral home and memorial park in omaha .