Where the smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street

And the shadow boys are breakin' all the laws

And it's east of East St. Luis and the wind is makin' speeches

And the rain sounds like a round of applause

Napoleon is weeping in the carnival saloon

His invisible fiancée is in the mirror

And the band is goin' home, it's rainin' hammers, it's rainin' nails

It's true there's nothin' left for him down here

And it's time, time, time

It's time, time, time

It is 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

And the things you can't remember, tell the things you can't forget

That history puts a saint in every dream

Well, she said she'd stick around will 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?

So close your eyes son and this won't hurt a bit

And it's time, time, time

It's time, time, time

It is time, time that you love

And it's time, time, time

Well, things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl

The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street

And when she's on a roll, she pulls a razor from her boot

And thousand pigeons fall around her feet

So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon my lips

Till the dish outside the window fills with rain

Oh, just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart

And pay the fiddler off till I come back again

And it's time, time, time

It's time, time, time

It is time, time, time that you love

And it's time, time, time