Father time, I'm running late   I'm winding down, I'm growing tired   Seconds drift into the night   The clock just ticks till my time expires      You were once my friend   Now I know I can't tie your hands   The days I saved I couldn't spend   They fell like sand through the hourglass   No time to lose, no time to choose      Time taking time, it's taken mine   Scenes of my life seem so unkind   Time chasing time creeps up behind   I can't run forever, and time waits for no one   Not even me      I heard somebody fixed today   There was no last goodbyes to say   His will to live ran out   I heard somebody turned to dust   Looking back at what he left   A list of plans and photographs   Songs that never will be sung   These are the thinge he wont get done      Ive seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man   Ive seen them crawl from the cradle to the gutter on their hands   The fight a war but its fatal, its so hard to understand   Ive seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use that man      Just one shot to say goodbye   One last taste to mourn and cry   Scores and shoots, the lights go dim   Just one shot to do him in      He hangs his head and wonders why   Why the monkey only lies   But pay the pauper, he did choose   He hing his head inside the noose      Ive seen the man use the needle, seen the needle use that man   Ive seen them crawl from the cradle to the coffin on their hands   They fight a war but its fatal, its so hard to understand   Ive seen the man use the needle, seen the needle in his hand   Cryptic writing on the wall, the beginning of the end   Ive seen myself use the needle, seen the needle in my hand