Clock Tower

from Ars Nova by Shed Gods

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Ripped from sleep
Reality hits like a slap in the face
Forgotten dreams
Shattered in the harsh light of this place

Well I was warm but now I’m cold
I once could feel but now I see
I was young but now I’m
Old enough for a life of misery

And all my plans and dreams are dead
Given to the hands of time
Watch the clock tower tick away
Each second of this life of mine

No time for sleep when you have work
No time for dreams, we cry instead
They call it making a living
I think we’re all just walking dead

{Interlude – Sean Langwell – Acoustic Guitar
Dean Parnell – Bass}

Envy not the Clock Tower at your grave
For it, more than we, to time is a slave
We will gather moss to bring it down
And one day the world will wake without a sound

Sitting outside reality's dungeon
The Clock Tower spins our worldly abode
Mechanically forward, pushing us on
Swept by the wind of a plummeting globe
As we toil and trudge through darkened lands
Of stained soil polluted with smog and rust
Onward it drives us with unbending hand
Its impartial metronome brings us to dust

{Solo – Kyle Martin – Electric Guitar}

Envy not the Clock Tower at your grave
For it, more than we, to time is a slave
We will gather moss to bring it down
And one day the world will wake without a sound

I find no value in daily functions
How can I escape this living hell?
Hopelessness and suicide
Leave me here, a hollow shell

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from Ars Nova, released September 26, 2009
Dean Parnell – Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Sean Langwell – Acoustic Guitar
Kyle Martin – Guitar Solo
Conor Parnell – Bell Samples

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