Time Tales Tell (The Winged Clock)

[1] When I say I Used to Love H.E.R. — yesterday I touched her —

I would be the first to tell you there would be no other.

After we were lovers, we couldn’t be friends, still

Like we were Neo and we OD’d on that “real” pill.

Chilled—feel like we fell off and we would never be

Back in sync. And to think it was like telepathy:

She believed what I thought when I never said it,

And I could be what she needed and never ‘get’ it.

Why me? She could have whoever she wanted,

Never taunted, heaven was flaunted and I was on it.

So what changed to make ever-y-thing different?

Every sting signifi/can’t see no redemption?

Well, that’s a tale for the lovers with blind eyes

Who speak of loyalty. Here is where mine lies:

We’re bound to change as much as the mind tries…

[Oh, oh, time flies]

[Hook]

All we want is to have us some.

And spend our lives just for ours to come.

If it flies when you’re having fun

What does it do when you’re having none?

It’s like wings on the clock and it never stops…

[Oh, oh, time flies]

So think, and those thoughts’ll just make it start…

[Oh, oh, time]

Again.

[2] When I say I used to hate him—yesterday I played him—

I would be the last to tell you anything. I made him

To a villain, devoid of all feelings, wanting to kill him.

Ink spilled…imagine a pistol pointing at mirrors.

Trigger pulled, and the glass that would shatter wouldn’t be matter,

I couldn’t be madder, ‘cause nothing would splatter. Nothing would happen.

Just standing there, aiming, squeezing and thinking, holding and hoping,

Breathing, waiting to leave, exposing myself to knowing that this wasn’t life.

Wasn’t right to be so caught up in it.

Was brought up in it, but don’t have to leave my thought up in it.

Taught who him is, I learned that he was just not an image.

He was us. That implicitly meant that I was in it.

Now, that’s a tale for the lovers with blind eyes

Who speak of loyalty. Here is where mine lies:

We’re bound to change as much as the mind tries…

[Oh, oh, time flies]

[Hook]

All we want is to have us some.

And spend our lives just for ours to come.

If it flies when you’re having fun

What does it do when you’re having none?

It’s like wings on the clock and it never stops…

[Oh, oh, time flies]

So think, and those thoughts’ll just make it start…

[Oh, oh, time]

Again.