Chasing Time Lyrics

(I see you)

Out in the rain

Out through the window

Invite you to stay

Got a fire in the furnace, gotta keep me warm, keep me sane

(I see you)

Follow my name

Count down the hours

Sharpen your claws

While I’m drowning in anticipation, it’s your favorite champagne

(I see you)

Bite at the bit

Turn death into flowers

And I’ve got demands

But the mice can’t tell the cats how to run their game

Wanting for more, I knock at his door

And he obliges my impromptu discussion

Grains of sand sift through digital hands

While the mechanical man tells me what I can borrow

As we begin he lies through a grin

So my fate’s bound to the whims of his millennia

Cancel my plans

Before they get off the ground

Got a stop-watch in hand

Shuffle my schedule around

Well I know what I need

But I’m still left wasting time

It’s tempting to spend your time

Dreaming away

But while the Devil’s in the details

You’re just turning grey

And when the Devil was chasing me

I was chasing time

Time flows like the rain

Falling from fortune to trials

And like the lightning strikes with the rain

Time is not lacking reprisals

And though the flowers are birthed by the rain

Please don’t be in denial

A bed of roses is not without pain

When a thorn is in your side

Even if you could manage

To slow time down to a snail’s pace

It would still run laps around you

Like a beast, he gnaws on the bones of man’s carefully laid plans

Picking his teeth with our despair

Like a thief, he steals euphoria, replacing it with

Freshly-ripened heartache

Falling sand takes with both hands

Remorseless as the vulture to the carrion

Tick-Tock, tumult, terror

As the grave draws ever nearer

Time is not an object

You can own

Cancel my plans

Before they get off the ground

Got a stop-watch in hand

Shuffle my schedule around

Well I know what I need

But I’m still left wasting time

It’s tempting to spend your time

Dreaming away

But while the Devil’s in the details

You’re just turning grey

And when the Devil was chasing me

I was chasing time