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[Verse 1]
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I had a farmhouse
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With a grandfather clock
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Where I would teach time to my son
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Our lessons began
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At twelve o'clock sharp
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When the hands would come in as one
[Verse 2]
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I'd say "The big hands count minutes,
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it's so tightly wound
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It chases the small hand, to make hours go round"
[Pre-chorus]
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I taught Thomas
Constellations in the sky
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To tell a silver maple from a cottonwood
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I taught Thomas
To divide and multiply
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But what he never understood was
[Chorus]
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Time, as I watched him grow
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Time, he would never know
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Time, where my regret resides
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Time, if I only knew
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The what and how and who
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That time truly divides
[Verse 3]
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There was a farmhouse
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With a grandfather clock
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Where one day I woke up alone
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They feared I was magic
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They feared I was cursed
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But mostly they feared the unknown
[Verse 4]
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The big hand's the father
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The small hand's the son
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And there never came a time
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When they came back as one
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I taught Thomas how to catch a firefly
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How to make a pebble skip and rowboat skim
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She took Thomas and never said goodbye
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The one thing I could never give to him
[Chorus]
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Was time
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Time
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I'm left with nothing
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Nothing but time
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