This Time I Got You - Colin Hay

Dogs and such, they don’t know how old they really are

They don’t have to go to work, or learn to drive a car

They just live 'til they can’t see, 'til their bark ain’t got no bite

I still hear him howlin', howling in the night

The air is still as time flies by at a most unruly pace

Unless you’re in a prison cell, it has no name or face

I do recall what I told myself, as I turned 52

This time it’s different, this time I got you

This time I got you

Walking in the patient’s room, when everything turned red

I recognized the reaper man who raised his ugly head

He said «Relax, don’t worry man, I got no claim on you»

I remembered I was not alone, one and one make two

Spinning round and searching, looking for the door

I realized there’s no way out, I can run no more

I lay right down just where I stood, I only had one shoe

I knew that you would come for me, this time I got you

This time I got you

No one gets out alive it’s true, this I surely know

The path ahead is paved in gold, everywhere I go

I always find you, and with every day anew

No longer a janglin' man, ‘cos this time I got you

This time I got you