Time

The smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws And it's east of East St. Louis And the wind is making speeches And the rain sounds like a round of applause And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon His invisible fiancée is in the mirror And the band is goin' home It's raining hammers, it's raining nails It's true there's nothing left for him down here And it's time, time, time It's time, time, time It's time, time, time that you love And it's time, time, time And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train You can see them getting smaller as they pull away Oh and the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget That history puts a saint in every dream And she said she'd stick around 'til the bandages came off But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit And Matilda asks the sailors Are those dreams or are those prayers? Close your eyes, son, and this won't hurt a bit And it's time, time, time It's time, time, time It's time, time, time that you love And it's time, time, time Oh and things are pretty lousy for the calendar girls The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street Oh and when she's on a roll, she pulls a razor from her boot And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon my lips As the dish outside the window fills with rain Oh and just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart Pay the fiddler off 'til I come back again And it's time, time, time It's time, time, time It's time, time, time that you love And it's time, time, time It's time, time, time that you love And it's time, time, time