A Fisherman With a Clock

[Verse 1]

I was walking down the dock

I met a fisherman with a clock

I asked him "do you have the time

To read me back some lines?"

In a tiny little verse I wrote

When I was sailing on a boat

I had to write them on my shirt

About a love that starts to hurt

But feels like a miracle when it starts

With stars and sparkling hearts

Splashed

All over the internet

And everybody knows I bet

That there's unicorns in France

And fairies who love to dance

They point at the devil in the weeds

I think he's after me

[Chorus]

But this is love

Who do you love?

Who?

Who?

[Verse 2]

The fisherman pulled a knife

Like he would fight me for his life

He'd fought all the monsters in the sea

So he wasn't scared of me

I don't read out loud for free he said

So what's in it for me then Fred

I told him he can have the rhyme

And everything that's mine

If he agreed to be the voice

Who would read out loud the choice

That a girl I knew once made

And if he knew he'd be afraid

But I kept the truth under my hat

And he agreed to read it back

And that was how we struck the deal

For him to put away his steel and read of love

[Chorus]

Who do you love?

Who?

Who?

Who do you love?

Who?

Who?

[Bridge]

Here I am

Lying down

On the driveway with the kittens

And the moon is out

There's snow all on the ground

We were inside

They were restless

Coz I think they miss their mother

So I took them out to play

I couldn't sleep in there anyway

And they danced

And snowy crystals

Lit by moonlight in the midnight

Floating all around

Kicking snow up from the ground

Midnight darkness and the sparkle

It was there that I could see that you were gone for good

And I understood

That the moonlight and the silence and the snowflakes and any magic wasn't good enough

I wasn't good enough for you to stay

(I was walking down the dock

I met a fisherman with a clock

I asked him "Do you have the time

To read me back some lines?"

In a tiny little verse I wrote

When I was sailing on a boat

I had to write them on my shirt

About a love that starts to hurt

But feels like a miracle when it starts)