Blues About The Clock Lyrics

Last night I went a wandering down the alley

Just to see your loving smile

You were there

It was alright for awhile

You held me once in the evening

The morning never came

Held me once in the nighttime mama

And we both prayed for rain

You came an hour to late

What's past is great

What's gonna be is gonna be the same

Looked at the clock this morning

It wouldn't tell me the time

It was playing some kind of game

Laughing at the rain

Acting like an impoverished mime

Wonder where the night comes in

Child

Looked at the clock yesterday

It told me it was tomorrow night

Looked at my wrist clenched my fist

And hit myself upside the head just right

Knocked on the floor with anger no more

I've got a feeling that something ain't right

Looked at the clock last month dear

It told me that it was next year

Looked in the refrigerator

Looking for orange juice

But all I could find was beer

Don't know where it stops

Honey I don't know where it ends

But I know that you've been dreaming here

Looked in the closet Thursday

Found Friday's suit of close

Laughing at the window like a man

With nothing to do that nobody knows

Looked at the clock this evening

It says

Her love just grows and grows

Haven't got down with a blues man since 1988

Haven't got down with a blues man

Because I ain't that filled with hate

Ooh wondering when the morning comes a smiling

If you wanted me to wait

I will wait

Wanted to look in your eyes babe

Clock wouldn't tell me you were alive

It was all for the best

You couldn't be my guest

You've got some other kind of funk and jive

Living your live in the suburbs

Oh I hope you're barely alive