That mean old clock
Just keeps tick-tocking along
There's an empty place
In my body where my heart should be
No one'll ever know
How much that woman means to me
I wish that time would turn backward
To the time when she loved me
And would stop
And never go on
But that mean old clock
Just keeps tick-tocking along
And now that mean old clock
Just keeps tick-tocking along
He's been a watching me pacing
Oh, for lot of whole night long
And I wish he'd tell me
Why my baby left me
What did I ever do that was wrong
But that mean old clock
Just keeps tick-tocking along
Lord, I love that woman
And I guess that I always will
All she left was a letter
And what a time to kill
Said she loved another
And she'd rather leave me
Than to hang around and do me wrong
And that mean old clock
Just kept tick-tocking along
I said that mean old clock
Just keeps tick-tocking along
He's been a watching me pacing
Oh, for lot of whole night long
And I wish he'd tell me
Why my baby left me
What did I ever do that was wrong
But that mean old clock
Just keeps tick-tocking along
I said that mean old clock
Just keeps tick-tocking along
Yeah, that mean old clock
Just keeps tick-tocking along