G Em G Em

[Verse 1]

G
I had a farmhouse
Em
With a grandfather clock
G Em
Where I would teach time to my son
G
Our lessons began
Em
At twelve o'clock sharp
G C D
When the hands would come in as one

[Verse 2]

A F
I'd say "The big hands count minutes,
A Cm
it's so tightly wound
F G C
It chases the small hand, to make hours go round"

[Pre-chorus]

G Em
I taught Thomas

Constellations in the sky

G C D
To tell a silver maple from a cottonwood
G Em
I taught Thomas

To divide and multiply

G D
But what he never understood was

[Chorus]

F
Time, as I watched him grow
C
Time, he would never know
G C
Time, where my regret resides
F
Time, if I only knew
C
The what and how and who
D G Em
That time truly divides

[Verse 3]

G
There was a farmhouse
Em
With a grandfather clock
G Em
Where one day I woke up alone
G
They feared I was magic
Em
They feared I was cursed
G
But mostly they feared the unknown

[Verse 4]

A
The big hand's the father
C
The small hand's the son
A Am D
And there never came a time
G Em
When they came back as one

G Em
I taught Thomas how to catch a firefly
G C D
How to make a pebble skip and rowboat skim
G Em
She took Thomas and never said goodbye
G C D
The one thing I could never give to him

[Chorus]
C G
Was time
C D
Time
G Am A D
I'm left with nothing
G Em
Nothing but time

G Em