Hey Clockface / How Can You Face Me? - Elvis Costello

Hey Clockface

Keep your fingers on the dial

You stole those precious moments

And the kisses from her smile

And now I’m living in these hours

Away we will while

I’m not wasting any more time

Hey Clockface

I really wanna know

Why is it when we’re apart

You always take it slow

And when she’s here

You always say «It's almost time to go»

You said you’d be a friend to me

But time is just my enemy

And it is hurting me so

The moon comes through the window

Shining crescently and bright

The sun rolls round again

If I could turn your face back

Before all of this started

Forty minutes past four when her secrets she parted

Forty minutes past four in the faithless A. M

She wound up in his arms and not the man that I am

A spring that is sprung

A cuckoo-bird that sung

Now there’s a nail in a bare wall

Where your face once hung

Hey Clockface

Now I don’t feel a thing

You stole away the heart in me

And then removed my spring

The winding mechanisms shot

The movement is unwound

Don’t tick or tock or dare to make a sound

Hey Clockface

Well, don’t you ever dare

Count me down to zero hour

And keep me waiting here

A minute from departure

I will twist your key and have her come back to me

Have her come back to me

How can you face me?

After what I’ve been through

After you broke that vow

How can you face me now?

How can you face me now?

How can you face me now?