WHEN THE CLOCK FORGOT TO MOVE [Verse 1] I never told my children, I never told my wife, About the night a melody Unfastened me from life. The room was still around me, The walls were where they'd been, Then something opened silently And let another heaven in. No warning, no thunder, No hand upon the door— Just one impossible chord, And I wasn't there anymore. [Chorus] The clock forgot to move, The music learned to fly, It carried me like weightless dust Across a breathing sky. I painted clouds with winter lilies, Watched the sleeping world below— And for a moment I belonged To somewhere time could never go. [Verse 2] I rode the ninth cloud barefoot, A feather with the wind, While every note erased the lines That kept the heavens pinned. The clouds became companions, We drifted into one, And saw the earth through eagle eyes Turning softly round the sun. I could have come with rainfall, Or hidden in the snow, Or slipped inside a rainbow Where only colors know. [Chorus] The clock forgot to move, The music learned to fly, It carried me like weightless dust Across a breathing sky. I painted clouds with winter lilies, Watched the sleeping world below— And for a moment I belonged To somewhere time could never go. [Bridge] How do you tell somebody What happened outside time? How do you frame an ocean? How do you measure the divine? Some ears will hear vibrations, Some hearts will hear a door. Some souls are fed by music— And rise to ask for more. To one it may be medicine, To one a passing sound, To one a pair of secret wings That never touch the ground. [Instrumental Rise] [Final Chorus] And the clock forgot to move, And I forgot my name, There was no yesterday to lose, No tomorrow left to claim. Only clouds and winter lilies, Only rain against the blue, Only something without language Passing silently right through. [Outro] That night I went to bed With no miracle to prove, But my body rocked like water Long after the music moved. And somewhere in the darkness, Before I fell asleep, I knew some songs don't enter ears— They enter somewhere deeper than we know how to reach.
