Time the Avenger - The Pretenders

Nobody’s perfect

Not even a perfect stranger

Oh, but what a gal

She was such a perfect stranger

And you the best in your field

In your office

With your girls, and desk and leather chair

Thought that time was on your side

Not time the avenger

Nobody is permanent

Everything is on loan here

Even your wife and kids

Could be gone next year

And with what you have left

You’ll be forever, under pressure to support her

And a lover who looks strangely

Like time the avenger

Time, time hear the bells chime

Over the harbor in the city

Time, one more vodka and lime

To help paralyze that little

Tick, tick tick tick …

Nobody’s perfect

Not even a perfect gent

When your property took the A train

I wonder where your manners went

You were standing at the station

In your briefcase was your aftershave and underwear

Can you hear the whistle blow

Sounds like time the avenger

Time, time hear the bells chime

Over the harbor in the city

Time kill another bottle of wine

To help paralyze that little

Tick, tick tick tick …