Father Time Lyrics - John Martyn

I saw you, yesterday 

Walking down my line 

I says, I know you, just get away 

Your name is Father Time 

Time I hate, the time I love 

Time I spent all over 

Time I wasted, the time I spent 

Time I've got to run away 

I saw you, yesterday 

Running down my track 

I saw you just yesterday 

I could feel you at my back 

With that long black cloak and that sharp scythe 

For cutting them all down 

Your long black coat, a skull and a scythe 

Cutting them all through town 

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I saw you, just yesterday 

You don't frighten me 

I see you every day 

You still don't frighten me 

One day I'll go 

And you'll have no choice but to come with me 

The next day I'll come 

The very next day I'll have to go, I tell you, say 

You're no herb from my garden 

You're no rosemary 

And you're no sage 

You know your name 

I call you Father Time 

I saw you yesterday 

I can still see you now 

You're living in my face, in my breakfast 

I can see you now 

You're just the time I wasted, the time I spent 

You're the time I'm left to run with 

What time is this 

Even I make up time, I do, I'm the time 

You can call yourself daddy 

But you're no father of mine 

Yes, I saw you yesterday 

You didn't frighten me at all 

I saw you just yesterday 

You didn't frighten me at all 

With that long cloak and that silly little skull 

The stupid scythe and all your jive 

I never could see you, I can't see you now 

Not as long as I'm alive 

One day, I'll go 

The very next day you'll come 

One day you'll come 

The very next time I'll go 

I know a friend of mine, a friend of mine was watching 

Told me the time by the clock 

I saw him last night, down by the graveyard 

Holding on to a rock 

I said, "I saw you yesterday 

I saw you, Father Time" 

I said, "Go away, go away, go away, go away, go away 

I know you're Father Time, run it down now" 

I said, "Every minute, every second, every day of my life 

I meet you in the mirror 

Every time, look at each wrinkle 

I know I've got a sheriff coming" 

Sure I saw you, sure as time 

Sure as clock, sure is fine 

I know that mother's no father 

'Cause they call him Father Time 

Coming through the door with a black cloak 

And a nasty sharp instrument 

That nasty sharp instrument 

That nasty sharp instrument 

I won't go till I'm ready and you can't catch me 

I won't go till I'm ready and you can't catch me 

I won't go till I'm ready and you can't catch me 

I won't go till I'm ready and you can't catch 

I won't go till I'm ready and you can't catch me 

I won't go till I'm ready and you can't catch me 

I won't go till I'm ready and you can't catch me 

I won't go till I'm ready