Outside my house, there's a cactus plant they call the Century Tree   Only once every hundred years it flowers gracefully   And you never know when it will bloom      [chorus]   Hey, do you wanna come out and play the game?   It's never too late   Hey, do you wanna come out and play the game?   It's never too late      Clementine Hunter was 54 when she packed up her paint   Old Uncle Taylor was 81 when he rode his bike across the plains of China   And the sun was shining on that day   Just like today      [chorus]      He didn't know how to tell her   For over thirty years   He kept locked up inside himself   No one saw the tears   But then she went away    And he woke up that day      Now he brings roses to his sweetheart   She lives most anywhere   He sees somebody suffering   He knows that despair   So he offers them a rose   And some quiet prose    About dancing in a shimmering ballroom   'Cause you never know when it will bloom      [chorus until fade]