[Intro] [Tick, tick, a slow clock, fluorescent hum] [Verse 1] Rain on the staff door, the corridors are bare Tea on the desk and a lamp in the stairwell air Two fifty-eight, I'm counting down the files Everything's quiet, quiet for a while [Pre-Chorus] Then the lights start to shake And the whole building holds its breath [Chorus] It's three o'clock, it's three o'clock again The hour that happens twice, I don't know when The tea is warm, the tea is warm like before Somebody's walking where nobody walked before It's three o'clock, don't look behind There's someone in the glass, and he's been waiting for my time [Verse 2] Same cup of steam and the same pile of years The clock says the same thing, but nothing's the same here A gurney in the hallway that was never there A man with his back turned, and the cold in the air [Pre-Chorus] Then the lights start to shake And the whole building holds its breath [Chorus] It's three o'clock, it's three o'clock again The hour that happens twice, I don't know when The tea is warm, the tea is warm like before Somebody's walking where nobody walked before It's three o'clock, don't look behind There's someone in the glass, and he's been waiting for my time [Bridge] [Half-time, near silence, a slow clock tick] Wet footprints on a dry floor Leading to a shelf A folder pushed out slowly Like it's asking for itself [Final Chorus] It's three o'clock, it's three o'clock for me The hour that happens twice has come to find me Tell me who you were, tell me what they did I'll open every file where the truth is hid [Outro] [Tick, tick, fading into the hum]
