Key: A major
Verse 1
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
I am a
Eb
clock without hands
Cm
I'm walking through
Eb
the midnights
Counting all the moments
Cm
F
Of the loves I've left behind
Crying on the shoulders of the days
Ab
Eb
I've not forgotten now
Verse 2
Cm
Eb
I am frozen in time
Cm
Like the battles of the soldiers
Eb
Left displaced of time
Cm
Where their tears still fall
F
Loves that wreck out on the track
Ab
Far beyond my looking back to recall
Eb
F
I'm just a clock upon the shelf
Ab
Without hands to give the time of day
Bb
Bbsus4
Bb
For love at all
Verse 3
Eb
[Chorus:] I am a clock
without hands
Cm
No one understands this
F
That when the autumn comes
Bb
I see no reason for a fall
Eb
Spring can fail to move me
Cm
With its tulips and its clover
Ab
Now the time for love is over
F
Bb
I am a clock without hands
Bbsus4
Eb
Cm
I'm just tickin' and that's all
F
Bb
I am a clock without hands
I'm just tickin' and that's
Interlude 1
all
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
Verse 4
Eb
I recall a time
Cm
When love still had the power
Eb
To reach inside this clock
Cm
Where my hands held a dream
F
The innocence of passion
Ab
And the words of Saint Teresa chiming in
Eb
Cm
Eb
And I recall the faith
Cm
Of the love of my life
Eb
And the losing of my hands
Cm
Which he took with him when he died
F
I'm crying on the shoulders of his love
Ab
Eb
That I'm remembering now
F
It's been ages since this heart
Ab
has ticked a beat of love
Bb
Eb
So I've forgotten how
Outro 1
[Chorus]
Cm
F
Bb
Eb
Cm
Ab
F
Bb
Eb
Cm
F
Bb
Eb
Cm
F
Bb
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
Eb
Cm
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