Today I'm closing up the house

'Cause it don't feel like home

The harder twilight pulls at me

The less I want to go

They say that all the streets of heaven are paved with gold

That's just to hurry up us folks that get too old

Time gets me wound up like a clock inside my head

Time gets me spinning my own wheels

And when I think that there ain't one more inch

This worn out heart can give

Time's gonna teach me how it feels

Watch your hands they don't get caught

I'm 'bout to close this door

You bright young kids are all I've got

And now I know what for

You'll see that love's the only thing we've got to show

Time will just run out but love I know

Time gets you wound up like a clock inside your head

Time gets you spinning your own wheels

And while you're losing what you've found

You're finding out that's what you need

Time's gonna teach you how it feels

I know your father's watching

He's saving me a place right by his side

But you don't like to hear that kind of talk

But it ain't up to me to hide

Don't make it hard for me to go

Don't make it hard for me

This house has seen some fifty years

Atop the same old soil

But houses are just houses, child

It's people are what's loyal

You'll see that love's the only thing we've got to show

Time will just run out but love I know

Time gets you wound up like a clock inside your head

Time gets you spinning your own wheels

And when you think that there ain't one more inch

Your worn out heart can give