Excuse me, does anyone have the time?   No      If you knew what makes me tick   It'll probably make you sick   Lay my days of my life in front of you   And I'll let you take your pick, come on      Pull back the curtain but make sure that you are certain   That it will be worth the energy that you end up exerting   Now walk past the doorway step in the foyer   Don't you bother knocking      I'm a grandfather clockin' everything you do   I'm seeing through you faultiness   So sprinkle me but not with saltiness   The ghetto taught me this      I fought for this, I fight for this, I spend my life for this   And if you put your brain to work it ain't hard to decipher this      Counting down the days boy closer to your doom   Time keeper for the Reaper, the family heirloom   Like staring at my grandfather clock inside my room   It'll never miss a tick-tock, it strikes everyday a noon      Every hour on the hour, it'll sing a tune   Every half hour ot'll croon and yell out at the moon   You can't escape the master time, no one is immune   The hands of time will grab you when the moments opportune      No one is immune   When the moments opportune      Carved from a tree trunk bark   What a wonderful work of art   Well, I usually wear my sundial   But it don't work when it's dark   (Don't work when it's dark)      No electric parts spark as mechanical as he is   He'll kindly say just wind me and then show me where the key is      Then I go about my day and I flow about the way   He never has nothing to say, he just sits there on display   I seen one in the cafe, one inside the cabaret   Timekeeper for the Reaper, what a pretty price to pay      So don't you bother knockin' at, I'm a Grandfather clokin'   Everything you do, I'm seeing through your masquerade   At midnight you will hear the serenade and don't you be afraid   It's like clock work orange lemonade with the bottomless glass      When it's time for that ass, tick-tock   My grandfather clock goes   Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock      The pendulum is swinging   And it just don't ever stop   Tick-tock, my Grandfather clock goes   Tick-tock, tick-tock, my grandfather clock      I used to have this coo-coo clock   That would bother my grandfather clock   Never gave it no rest so I flew over the top of the nest   And then at my request I ask him to resign   He was never on time, one hour behind   At ten, he stuck at nine      But he did not fuck with mine 'cause I murdered that machine   If you ever beat the clock you know exactly what I mean   (Exactly what I mean)   I hold my grandfather clock in high esteem      My alarm clock screams 'cause he knows how long it takes me   But my grandfather clock leans over and he shakes me   And they both race against time to see who will be the first to wake me      But when I became awoke my alarm clock was broke   And my grandfather clock was staring right down my throat   And he leaned a little bit closer and he told and I quote   "If you ever race against me, you will surely come up short"      He said, "I'm better than your Timex, your Rolex or your Swatch   Your Fossil, Casio, Quartz, your diamond studded watch"   He said, "I control how long you stay alive   I'ma tap you on you shoulder at eleven fifty-five"      When the time arrives and then and only then   You'll have your five minutes of funk   I said my final salutations as I stepped amongst the monks   Then he took me exactly where I stodd like he should   And I tried to reason with him and I tried knocking on wood but he said      So don't you bother knockin' at, I'm a Grandfather clokin'   Everything you do, I'm seeing through your masquerade   At midnight you will hear the serenade and don't you be afraid   It's like clock work orange lemonade with the bottomless glass      When it's time for that ass, tick-tock   My grandfather clock goes   Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock      The pendulum is swinging   And it just don't ever stop   Tick-tock, my Grandfather clock goes   Tick-tock, tick-tock, my grandfather clock