Pearls Before Swine - A Life lyrics

Rapp The clock has metal hands It throws the hours down On the ground with a thud The sound of blood And if you do not forgive me I do not know What I will do As the time goes by As the time goes by In the Spring when he was born The soil was soft and good and warm His father was a farmer The son of the sun Said: the Earth don't wait for a man but once And if you do not believe me I do not know What I will do And the time goes by And the time goes by When he was a boy the fields were full The girls were soft and good and warm The morning sun was shining Like a promise in his eyes And if you do not deceive me I do not know What I will do And the time goes by And the time goes by When he was a man he worked with his hands The ground was hard, but a place to stand But when the Autumn came around The oxen plowed the land to ridges in the ground And the wrinkles in his face Like the beaten road showed In a man's body Is where the time goes And if you do not defeat me I do not know What I will do And the time goes by And the time goes by He gave to the earth and it gave back 'Till he had nothing to give at last The trembling of his marbled hands Showed he knew What the Earth demanded As it waited for him And the time goes by And the time goes by The clock has metal hands It throws the hours down On the ground with a thud The sound of blood And if you do not forgive me I do not know What I will do As the time goes by As the time goes by