Old Father Time (Song)

1st Verse:

In the land of ticking clocks

there lives Old Father Time;

sitting on a spinning rock

and speaking words of rhyme.

 

2nd Verse:

 

His children are the hours;

days and weeks and months and years;

he watches all the flowers

bloom and grow then disappear.

 

Chorus:

 

Tomorrow will be Yesterday;

Today, the day before;

the day before, tomorrow

till its yesterday once more.

 

The future turns into the past;

days vanish into air;

enjoy each moment while it lasts;

be happy while you’re here.

 

3rd Verse:

 

He watches all the flowers

disappear then bloom and grow

The tyrants building towers

that, to ruin, all do go.

 

4th Verse:

 

He sees the whole world spinning

round just like a spinning top.

He was here in the beginning

and he’ll be here when it stops.

 

Chorus:

 

Tomorrow will be Yesterday;

Today, the day before;

the day before, tomorrow

till its yesterday once more.

 

The future turns into the past;

days vanish into air;

enjoy each moment while it lasts;

be happy while you’re here.