Time

Chords

Standard

C
Time is a tool you can put on the wall or wear it on your wrist.
C
The past is far behind us, the future doesn't exist.2

Oh.

C
What's the time?

It's quarter to nine, time to have a bath.
C
What do you mean? We're already clean.
C
Scrub, scrub, scrub, 'til the water's brown.

G                                   C
Time is a ruler to measure the day, it doesn't go backwards, only one way.
C                 D                      C
Watch it go round like a merry go round, going so fast like a merry go round.


Am            Em
Let's go on a journey, a journey through time.
Em                                      C               Am
It's time that's changing all the time, it's time to go to time.
F
But we don't really want to;
Em
we're going to miss our show.
Em
DON'T BE STUPID FRIENDS!
Em
C'mon it's time to go.


C
Time is old like the Victorian times.
C
With cobbles and plague and speaking in rhymes.
C
With cobbles and chimneys a simpler time.
C
With cobbles and sawdust and batteries and slime.

C
This tree that is old has circles inside.
C
The tree that is older has shriveled and died.
C
The apple that's fresh is ripe to the core
Em                  C
and I rot over time and I'm not anymore.

G                                       C
Time can be told by the moon or the sun but time 
C
flies fast when you're having fun.

G         C
There's a time and a place for mucking around!
C
Like birthdays
C
and camping;
C
I'm friends with my dad.

C                                          D 
And then what happened after the olden days?
F
Time went new and got old like history.
G
Stuff from the past went into a mystery.

An old man died.
Am           C
But, look, a computer!
G
Everything's cool, IT'S THE FUTURE!

C
Time is now, the future anew, and look at all of the wonderful 
C
things you can do!
C
With gadgets and gizmos and email addresses!
C
My dad is a computer.


Look at the time!
C
It's quarter to eight, there's fish on my plate.
C
It's twenty past day, there's fish on my tray.
C
It's eleven to twelve, there's fish in the bath.
C                                            F
It's nine thirty, there's fish everywhere....fish everywhere.

C
Now you can see the importance of time.
C
It helps us make pizza, it keeps things in line.
C
But when did it start?
C
And when will it stop?
C
Time is important and I am a clock.

C
If we run out of time, then where does it go?
C
Is time even real?
C
Does anyone know?
C
Maybe time's just a construct of human perception. An illusion created by-

G
Meh, meh, meh, meh,
G
Meh, meh, meh, meh,
C
Meh, meh, MEH! MEH!
C
MEH! MEH! MEH! MEH!

C
Sunrise, sunset
C
night and day.
C
The changing seasons
C
the smell of hay.
G
Look at your hair grow, isn't it strange?
                    Am
How time makes your appearance change.

Em C

F           C
Make it stop!

C
It's out of my hands, I'm only a clock.
C
Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine,
C                       D#
but eventually everyone runs out of time.