Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Don't Ask track 20. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:

I think you know I loved you from the start,
And I know you knew I thought we'd never part,
Our love it was a nova, but then you said it's over,
And you left that big black hole down in my heart.

I can't forget the night you threw me out,
Though I don't recall just what we fought about,
But it hurt so bad I thought my heart would burst.
Dear, you might at least have let me suit up first.

And the clock on the wall keeps on a-ticking,
Counting the time since you've been gone,
Now nothing is left to carry me on,
Nothing at all, but the clock on the wall.

Rushing through the interstellar night,
Thirty-seven times the speed of light,
And I can't hear the rhyme, the scansion, nor the time,
'Cause when you go this fast the clocks run backwards.

So though you left me stranded and alone,
Here without a life to call my own,
When that clock turns back a month or more,
I know you'll come walking right back through that door.

And the clock on the wall keeps on a-ticking
(You listen close, you can hear it going “Kot-kit, kot-kit, kot-kit,” which is really just “Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock,” only of course it's going backwards)
Counting the hours since you've been gone,
Now nothing is left to carry me on,
Nothing at all, but the clock on the wall.

And the clock on the wall keeps on a-ticking,
Counting the hours since you've been gone,
Now nothing is left to carry me on,
Nothing at all, but the clock on the wall.
Nothing at all, but the clock on the wall.