Van Dyke Parks



We painted inside and out with just a gallon of joy

We had the girl and the boy

And love was never a toy

Just like that old rusty Ford we restored out in back

It made that clickety-clack

Our new old house by the track

At her window was a touch of lavender lace

I remember her face

Too many rainbows to chase

Right through the cracks of the paint

Come the tracks of the train

Scatter like diamonds of rain

Down our old blacktop two lane



Hold back time

Don't talk about tomorrow

Tell that old clock on the wall

He'll just have to call it a day

Hold back time

When we're in each other's arms

We're in each other's arms

So hold back time



With that old country hymn spinning round in her brain

She kept her fancy for play

More than for fortune and fame

Now when we feel every wheel spinnin' steel on that track

We shake the dust off the sack

In our old house by the track



Hold back time

Don't talk about tomorrow

Tell that old clock on the wall

He'll just have to call it a day

Hold back time

When we're in each other's arms

We're in each other's arms

So hold back time

Time