A life

Rapp

The clock has metal hands

It throws the hours down

On the ground with a thud

The sound of blood

And if you do not forgive me

I do not know

What I will do

As the time goes by

As the time goes by

In the Spring when he was born

The soil was soft and good and warm

His father was a farmer

The son of the sun

Said: the Earth don't wait for a man but once

And if you do not believe me

I do not know

What I will do

And the time goes by

And the time goes by

When he was a boy the fields were full

The girls were soft and good and warm

The morning sun was shining

Like a promise in his eyes

And if you do not deceive me

I do not know

What I will do

And the time goes by

And the time goes by

When he was a man he worked with his hands

The ground was hard, but a place to stand

But when the Autumn came around

The oxen plowed the land to ridges in the ground

And the wrinkles in his face

Like the beaten road showed

In a man's body

Is where the time goes

And if you do not defeat me

I do not know

What I will do

And the time goes by

And the time goes by

He gave to the earth and it gave back

'Till he had nothing to give at last

The trembling of his marbled hands

Showed he knew

What the Earth demanded

As it waited for him

And the time goes by

And the time goes by

The clock has metal hands

It throws the hours down

On the ground with a thud

The sound of blood

And if you do not forgive me

I do not know

What I will do

As the time goes by

As the time goes by