The Grandfather Clock Lyrics

The Grandfather Clock

[Jabberwocky]
Excuse me, does anyone have the
time?
No!!!
[Aceyalone]
If you knew what makes me tick
It'll
probably make you sick
Lay my days of my life in front of you
and I'll
let you take your pick
Come on
Pull back the curtain but make sure that
you are certain
That it will be worth the energy that you end up
exerting
Now walk past the doorway step in the foyer
Don't you bother
knocking
I'm a grandfather clockin' everything you do
I'm seeing through
you faultiness
So sprinkle me but not with saltiness
The ghetto taught me
this
I fought for this, I fight for this, I spend my life for this
And if
you put your brain to work it ain't hard to decipher this
Counting down the
days boy closer to your doom
Time keeper for the Reaper, the family
heirloom
Like staring at my grandfather clock inside my room
It'll never
miss a tick-tock, it strikes everyday a noon
Every hour on the hour, it'll
sing a tune
Every half hour ot'll croon and yell out at the moon
You
can't escape the master time, no one is immune
The hands of time will grab
you when the moments opportune
No one is immune
When the moments
opportune
Carved from a tree trunk bark
What a wonderful work of
art
Well I usually wear my sundial
but it don't work when it's
dark
(don't work when it's dark)
No electric parts spark as mechanical as
he is
He'll kindly say just wind me and then show me where the key is
Then
I go about my day and I flow about the way
He never has nothing to say, he
just sits there on display
I seen one in the cafe, one inside the
cabaret
Timekeeper for the Reaper, what a pretty price to
pay
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So don't you bother knockin' at, I'm a Grandfather
clokin'
Everything you do, I'm seeing through your masquerade
At midnight
you will hear the serenade and don't you be afraid
It's like clock work
orange lemonade with the bottomless glass
When it's time for that
ass!!
Tick-tock
My Grandfather clock goes
Tick-tock 3X
The pendulum
is swinging and it just don't ever stop
Tick-tock
My Grandfather clock
goes
Tick-tock 2X
My Grandfather clock
I used to have this coo-coo
clock
that would bother my Grandfather clock
Never gave it no rest so I
flew over the top of the nest
And then at my request I ask him to
resign
He was never on time, one hour behind
At ten, he stuck at
nine
But he did not fuck with mine cause I murdered that machine
If you
ever beat the clock you know exactly what I mean
(exactly what I mean)
I
hold my Grandfather clock in high esteem
My alarm clock screams cause he
knows how long it takes me
But my Grandfather clock leans over and he shakes
me
And they both race against time to see who will be
the first to wake
me
But when I became awoke my alarm clock was broke
And my Grandfather
clock was staring right down my throat
And he leaned a little bit closer and
he told and I quote:
"If you ever race against me, you will surely come up
short,"
He said, "I'm better than your Timex, your Rolex or your
Swatch
Your Fossil, Casio, Quartz, your diamond studded watch,"
He said,
"I control how long you stay alive
I'ma tap you on you shoulder at eleven
fifty-five"
When the time arrives and then and only then
you'll have your
five minutes of funk
I said my final salutations as I stepped amongst the
monks
Then he took me exactly where I stodd like he should
And I tried to
reason with him and I tried knocking on wood
But he said
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