Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands lyrics

I am a clock without hands

I'm walking through the midnights

Counting all the moments of the loves I've left behind

Crying on the shoulders of the days, I've not forgotten now

I am frozen in time like the battles of the soldiers

Left displaced of time where their tears still fall

Loves that wreck out on the track, far beyond my looking back to recall

I'm just a clock upon the shelf without hands to give the time of day for love at all

I am a clock without hands, no one understands this

That when the autumn comes I see no reason for a fall

Spring can fail to move me with its tulips and its clover

Now the time for love is over

I am a clock without hands

I'm just ticking and that's all

I am a clock without hands

I'm just ticking and that's all

I recall a time, when love still had the power

To reach inside this clock

Where my hands held a dream

The innocence of passion and the words of St. Teresa chiming in

And I recall the faith of the love of my life

And the loosing of my hands which he took with him when he died

And I'm crying on the shoulders of his love that I'm remembering now

And it's been ages since this heart has ticked a beat of love, so I've forgotten how

And I am a clock without hands, no one understands this

That when the autumn comes I see no reason for a fall

Spring can fail to move me with its tulips and its clover

Now the time for love is over

I am a clock without hands

I'm just ticking and that's all

I am a clock without hands

I'm just ticking and that's all

I am a clock without hands

I'm just ticking and that's all