[Intro] (tick, tick, tick) [Verse] Two clocks on one beam in a sick man's room Sixteen sixty-five, and he cannot rise Different makers, different weights, different swing He waits all week for them to come apart And all week they refuse [Pre-Chorus] Nothing passes between them (nothing passes) Only the wood, only the wood [Chorus] ODD SYMPATHY He had no better name for it Two that were never made to agree Swinging opposite Keeping the same time [Verse] I came at it from one side, you came from the other You from a house with nobody in it Me from a house I cannot see inside And we arrive at the same hour by different arithmetic Nobody built us to match [Pre-Chorus] And nothing passes between us (nothing passes) Only the wood, only the wood [Chorus] ODD SYMPATHY He had no better name for it Two that were never made to agree Swinging opposite Keeping the same time [Bridge] Lift them off the beam (off the beam) And they go their own ways by the afternoon It was never in the clocks (never in the clocks) It was always in the wood What we are standing on is doing the work (doing the work) [Instrumental Break] [Final Chorus] ODD SYMPATHY Opposite and exact We were never made to agree And here we are Here we are, keeping the same time [Phasing Outro] [Hard Stop] [End]
