Words & Music by Gerlach/Hartmann

Are you going out Mama
you’ve washed and combed your hair
are you going out dancing
I like the red shoes that you wear

Everybody needs to live a little sometimes
you say it with a smile that never reaches your eyes

You never liked the clock
tick tock, tick tock
if only youth would last
time goes by too fast

Are you coming home Mama
it’s getting kind of late
I watched TV after supper
and now I’m lying in my bed

Everybody needs someone to hold them sometimes
and tell them that it’s going to be alright
I hear a baby cry and someone yelling outside
funny how anything can scare you at night

I lie and watch the clock
tick tock, tick tock
here in the pale moonlight
time goes slowly by

I sit and watch the clock
tick tock, tick tock
you say that time just flies
mine goes slowly by