Time is on my side
Yes it is.
The games that people play can only bore you
But only those that know you don’t ignore you
And how many times have I come there to restore you
And caught you lying on the couch with father time
And the clock on the wall is a bore
As you wander past the door and find him lying on the floor
As he begs you for some more, you frozen smile
Dreamed I was an Eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero…
When Quinn the Eskimo gets here
Everybody’s gonna jump for joy
Don’t you grieve, little Eve
All the hounds I do believe
Have been killed
Ain’t ya thrilled?
Jump for joy
Have you seen pastures groovy?
Green pastures was just a technicolor movie
When you stomp up to heaven and you meet old Saint Pete
Tell that boy
Glorious technicolor
Breathtaking Cinemascope
And stereophonic sound!
Hooray for Hollywood!
You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard,
Some that you recognize, some that you’ve hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Fame and fortune is a magnet.
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart you’re never alone.
Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are without a friend
You pack your car and ride away
This place about to blow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
Blow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
Let me say now i don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where i’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Ground she’s movin’ under me
Tidal waves out on the sea
Sulphur smoke up in the sky
Pretty soon we learn to fly
Smoke on the water
Fire in the sky
I let it fall, my heart
And as it fell, you rose to claim it
It was dark and I was over
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me
My hands, they’re strong
But my knees were far too weak
To stand in your arms
Without falling to your feet
But there’s a side to you that I never knew, never knew
All the things you’d say, they were never true, never true
And the games you’d play, you would always win, always win
But I set fire to the rain
Watched it pour as I touched your face
Let it burn while I cry
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name
I cut my bangs with some rusty kitchen scissors
I screamed his name
Till the neighbors called the cops
Turn it up a little louder
Crank the speakers
Grab a beer
Turn it up a little louder
We ain’t got nothin’ to fear
Turn it up a little louder, yeah
Until the cops get here
Old Billy Joe and Tommy, well they went a little far,
They were sitting in my backyard blowing on the siren in somebody’s police car.
So you see, your honour,
It was all in fun,
That little bitty track meet down on main street,
Was just to see if the cops could run,
Well, they run us in to see you,
In an alcoholic haze,
I can sure use those thirty days to recover from the party.
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
Colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
Of each one, sat down. Man came in said, “All rise.” We all stood up,
And Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
Pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
Sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
Twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
And a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles
And arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
Blind justice, and there wasn’t nothing he could do about it, and the
Judge wasn’t going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
Pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
One explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And
We was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but that’s not
What I came to tell you about.
Ooh, ooh. Ooh, ooh.
Let me tell you now
Let me tell you
Let me tell you
Let me tell you right now
Well you can tell the world about this
You can tell the nation about that
Tell’em what the master has done
Tell’em that the gospel has come
Tell’em that the victory’s been won
He brought joy,joy,joy,joy,joy,joy,
Into my heart
Tell her about it
Tell her everything you feel
Pay her some attention
Let her know that you’re for real