Joey Ryan - Giant Clock lyrics

rate me

You always slept on the left side of the bed

Next to the giant clock so you could see what time it read

Beside it sat what you removed each night from off your head

That covered what the doctor said would surely leave you dead

I was just a boy of seven, by brother barely four

My mother never showed her fear or shared the load she bore

You were making deals with the devil and the lord

Or anyone who would listen who could give you five years more

You said please, please, please lord knows I ask not for me

Cause I’m not scared of dying, though I love the life I lead

It’s just that if I go who will coach my sons’ baseball teams

Who will teach them how to give a woman what she needs

Stay up discussing God and science when everyone’s asleep

Tell them to move their feet on defense, use their body not their hands

Yes who will show them how to be a man

In my past life I believe I must have been a saint

To have been raised by you this time around and that you weren’t taken away

Cause now I can shoot a jump shot, hold my own in a debate

We grew up strong and humble, that you somehow cheated fate

She had the love that she deserved and the family that she made

You said please, please, please lord knows I’m asking not for me

Cause I’m not scared of dying, though I love the life I lead

It’s just if I go who will coach my sons’ baseball teams

It’s just if I go who will coach my sons’ baseball teams

It’s just if I go who will coach my sons’ baseball teams