[Verse 1] You keep time With a cracked gold watch Second hand stutters Like a nervous heart Coffee cup rings On a crooked chart Tracing every place We swore we’d start [Verse 2] Your blue coat hangs On a bent brass nail Pockets full of Unused rail Tickets turning Soft and pale Little paper ghosts Of the great unveil [Chorus] Round and round this clockwork carousel Same sad song Different hotel Every goodbye tastes like something sweet Spun-out sugar on a quiet street If you ever choose to break the spell Meet me by the old clock tower bell We’ll turn back time Or try ourselves On our clockwork carousel [Verse 3] You talk big dreams In a rented room Curtains bloom orange In the late day gloom Ashtray planets In a cheap perfume Spinning Always spinning ’Til they leave no room [Verse 4] I write your name In the margin space Between a riddle And a weather case Crossword corners Folding at the base Every missing word Looks like your face [Chorus] Round and round this clockwork carousel Same sad song Different hotel Every goodbye tastes like something sweet Spun-out sugar on a quiet street If you ever choose to break the spell Meet me by the old clock tower bell We’ll turn back time Or try ourselves On our clockwork carousel [Verse 5] Sunday papers On the stairwell floor Someone’s fortune Underneath our door Tea grows cold By the “evermore” You laugh and say You don’t believe in “for” [Bridge] [Strings swell Drums drop to toms and handclaps] All the tiny moving parts Springs and screws and fragile hearts Rust and glitter Faith and doubt Hold our little world Hold our little world Inside this music box of shouts If we wind it up again Will it play the same old end? (oh) Or crack and let the daylight in [Chorus] Round and round this clockwork carousel Same sad song Different hotel Every goodbye tastes like something sweet Spun-out sugar on a quiet street If you ever choose to break the spell Meet me by the old clock tower bell We’ll turn back time Or free ourselves From our clockwork carousel
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