Clock Up On The Wall - Joe South

(Oo, oo-oo-oo

Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo

Oo, oo-oo-oo

Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo)

Once your love was mine alone to have and to hold

Then I overlooked a diamond while searchin' for gold

I’d give the world to find a way

To go back to yesterday

But that old clock up on the wall won’t let me

What does true love mean to a kid actin' smart?

So as time ticked away, soon we drifted apart

I wish I could go back somehow

Knowin' then what I know now

But that old clock up on the wall won’t let me

I passed up the door to paradise in search of ecstasy

Too late I realized I love you so

And I wish I had the power

To return for just one hour

But I seem to hear that old clock sayin' «No, no, no

You can’t go, no»

(La, la-la-la-la

La, la-la-la-la

La, la-la-la-la

La, la-la-la-la

La)

Now, all that I’ve got left is just a blue memory

So ends another page in a fool’s history

'Cause there’s nothin' that I can do

To bring back the love we knew

No, that old (Clock up on the wall)

What did you say?

(Won't let me)

No, it won’t let me, no, no, no, no (Clock up on the wall)

No, it won’t let me

It just keeps on tickin' away (Clock up on the wall)

Oh, ho, it won’t let me turn back the time, now, now

Clock up on the wall (Won't let me)

No, no, no, no, no-no-no-no (Clock up on the wall)

No, it won’t let me

Ain’t no sense in tryin' (Clock up on the wall won’t let me)