Twenty-four hours a day, boy,
That's not the way I planned it
It would be you and it would be me, boy
Twenty-four hours a day,
Yeah, twenty-four hours a day

My lover and my friend,
My beginning and my end,
Oh, I had a dream
What came in between us?

Twenty-four hours away, boy
Without you I am stranded
All that I knew was me loving you, boy
Twenty-four hours a day, yeah,
Twenty-four hours a day

And I know I loved you and you loved me, too
But the temptation for more than me, for moving on was there
You were like the sunshine, but sunshine comes and goes
How was I to know that I would stay and you'd be the one to go?

My lover and my friend,
My beginning and my end
Oh, I had a dream
What came in between us?

Twenty-four hours a day, boy,
That's not the way I planned it
It would be you and it would be me, boy
Twenty-four hours a day,
Yeah, twenty-four hours a day