Time for Something

Tick Tock

I hear it calling
Lonesome tolling
Slowly catching me
Time
Wasting away
Day after day
Playing that game
Between you and me.

Whispering to myself
Seems like I'm going crazy
What about you
Old man in me
Young man at heart
Tearing me apart
Why don't we just see
Where this takes us
Why all the drama
People calling us out
What's that all about
Another long night yearning
But it can't be.

Tick tock
Time on the clock
Swinging left
Swinging right
Why do we fight
Denying the pleasure
What is the measure
Of a lifetime alone
If you don't take a chance
You'll never know
A life never lived
Is like a love surrendered.

Cadence call
Writing on the wall
Music and madness
Chorus of voices
But always alone
Harmony and happiness
Always competing
Calculating the distance
Between us
Gardens of stone
Or a valley of clover
Under the cover of night
Time is right
For a reckoning.

Tell me a story
Happy ending
Not some tragedy
That never was
Hope and glory
You and me
Sunrise, sunset
Whispering breeze
Secret message in the trees
That time never regrets.

Tick tock
Time on the clock
Swinging left
Swinging right
Why do we fight
Denying the pleasure
What is the measure
Of a lifetime alone
If you don't take a chance
You'll never know
A life never lived
Is like a love surrendered.

Dale A. Wittler 17'