Tick Tock - Chris Rice

Got our heels dug in

But time is draggin' us toward

The time when time won’t matter anymore

They say life is but a vapor

Just a blip on a radar screen

Not the dates on your tombstone

But the dash in between

There’s just today, that’s all we got

There’s just today, that’s all we got

Tick-tock, the past is locked

The future’s far away

You can’t go back, you can’t hurry it up

You gotta learn to live today

Tick-tock, it’s now o’clock

The little hand is ours

The second hand sweeps us around

And the Big Hand has the power

The Big Hand has the power

Well am I livin' or am I dyin'

Will the world get another day?

I hear a baby cryin', and I pluck out another gray

I’m always talkin' about a change

But talkin’s all I’ve done

I’m gonna start tomorrow

But tomorrow never comes

There’s just today, that’s all we got

There’s just today, that’s all we got

Tick-tock, the past is locked

The future’s far away

You can’t go back, you can’t hurry it up

You gotta learn to live today

Tick-tock, it’s now o’clock

The little hand is ours

The second hand sweeps us around

And the Big Hand has the power

The Big Hand has the power

Always runnin' late

Don’t procrastinate

Leavin' in a hurry

Life is rollin' on

Give me just a second

Wait another minute

Sleep another hour

See another day dawn

Call you next week

See you in a month

Celebrate a season

Now another year’s gone

Well there goes a decade, a century, millenium

And here comes eternity, eternity, eternity

Here comes eternity, eternity

What’s up with eternity?

Tick-tock, the past is locked

The future’s far away

You can’t go back, you can’t hurry it up

You gotta learn to live today

Tick-tock, it’s now o’clock

The little hand is ours

The second hand sweeps us around

And the Big Hand has the power

The Big Hand has the power