Verse 1:

I hear a tickingit keeps on ticking

Though it's only inside my head

The light is flickingand hell is kicking

A believer before it's dead



Chorus:

And I'm looking to the hourglass

That's running out of sand

I'm looking through the hourglass

Into another land



Verse 2:

I hear a crying of people dying

And it's taking me to the street

Intensifying a self-denying

That bringing will starve defeat



Repeat chorus



Bridge:

Time is sifting away so fast

Loving...i've got to love what lasts

'cause where you hide your treasure

You hide your heart

If you hide it in this world

You know it's gonna fall apart



Repeat chorus