The Grandfather Clock lyrics

Artist  : Aceyalone 
Song : The Grandfather Clock
 


[Jabberwocky]
Excuse me, does anyone have the
time?
No!!!
[Aceyalone]
If you knew what
makes me tick
It'll probably make you
sick
Lay my days of my life in front of
you
and I'll let you take your pick
Come
on
Pull back the curtain but make sure that
you are certain
That it will be worth the
energy that you end up exerting
Now walk past
the doorway step in the foyer
Don't you bother
knocking
I'm a grandfather clockin' everything
you do
I'm seeing through you faultiness
So
sprinkle me but not with saltiness
The ghetto
taught me this
I fought for this, I fight for
this, I spend my life for this
And if you put
your brain to work it ain't hard to decipher
this
Counting down the days boy closer to your
doom
Time keeper for the Reaper, the family
heirloom
Like staring at my grandfather clock
inside my room
It'll never miss a tick-tock,
it strikes everyday a noon
Every hour on the
hour, it'll sing a tune
Every half hour ot'll
croon and yell out at the moon
You can't
escape the master time, no one is immune
The
hands of time will grab you when the moments
opportune
No one is immune
When the moments
opportune
Carved from a tree trunk bark
What
a wonderful work of art
Well I usually wear my
sundial
but it don't work when it's
dark
(don't work when it's dark)
No
electric parts spark as mechanical as he
is
He'll kindly say just wind me and then show
me where the key is
Then I go about my day and
I flow about the way
He never has nothing to
say, he just sits there on display
I seen one
in the cafe, one inside the cabaret
Timekeeper
for the Reaper, what a pretty price to
pay
Chorus
So don't you bother knockin' at,
I'm a Grandfather clokin'
Everything you do,
I'm seeing through your masquerade
At midnight
you will hear the serenade and don't you be
afraid
It's like clock work orange lemonade
with the bottomless glass
When it's time for
that ass!!
Tick-tock
My Grandfather clock
goes
Tick-tock 3X
The pendulum is swinging
and it just don't ever stop
Tick-tock
My
Grandfather clock goes
Tick-tock 2X
My
Grandfather clock
I used to have this coo-coo
clock
that would bother my Grandfather
clock
Never gave it no rest so I flew over the
top of the nest
And then at my request I ask
him to resign
He was never on time, one hour
behind
At ten, he stuck at nine
But he did
not fuck with mine cause I murdered that
machine
If you ever beat the clock you know
exactly what I mean
(exactly what I mean)
I
hold my Grandfather clock in high esteem
My
alarm clock screams cause he knows how long it
takes me
But my Grandfather clock leans over
and he shakes me
And they both race against
time to see who will be
the first to wake
me
But when I became awoke my alarm clock was
broke
And my Grandfather clock was staring
right down my throat
And he leaned a little
bit closer and he told and I quote:
"If you
ever race against me, you will surely come up
short,"
He said, "I'm better than your Timex,
your Rolex or your Swatch
Your Fossil, Casio,
Quartz, your diamond studded watch,"
He said,
"I control how long you stay alive
I'ma tap
you on you shoulder at eleven fifty-five"
When
the time arrives and then and only then
you'll
have your five minutes of funk
I said my final
salutations as I stepped amongst the monks
Then
he took me exactly where I stodd like he
should
And I tried to reason with him and I
tried knocking on wood
But he said
Chorus