The Princess and the Clock - Kero Kero Bonito

Oh, ooh, oh

High up in a chamber

She painted pictures of the man that made her

Oh, ooh, oh

Shadowed by a clock face

The hands were rusted at the time she came in

When she played outside

She saw the birds, so high

But she made a wish

To grow, one day, her own pair of wings

She sailed long from the fall

To find herself in the world

When in the wind, she heard a burning call

And so she followed it and came ashore

On the beach with a crowd all waiting here for you

Then a voice said, «It was true

We all prayed for a princess

You’re the one, heaven sent»

Oh, ooh, oh

High up in the chamber

She painted pictures of the man that made her

Oh, ooh, oh

Just to remember

Before the memory got lost in the dark

Oh, ooh, oh

Shadowed by a clock face

The hands were rusted at the time she came in

Though she shrugged the passing of the days

Eternally a child she would remain

But while she flies like the wind

The air escaped into silence

She woke up laying on a gilded bed

With half a dozen maids around her

«We're keeping you safe in a tall place

Where you can see all imagining for miles

By God’s decree

Hail to the girl, our Queen»

As the nights ran

Together blurring into years

Her brush strokes never disappeared

Oh, ooh, oh

High up in the chamber

She painted pictures of the man that made her

Oh, ooh, oh

Just to remember

Before the memory got lost in the dark

Oh, ooh, oh

Shadowed by a clock face

The hands were rusted at the time she came in

Though she shrugged the passing of the days

Eternally a child she would remain

Until one day when the clatter rang through the hills

the smashed open windowsill

A feather high in the air

And the once-stopped clock was ticking on