Hourglass Lyrics - Leslie Phillips

I hear a ticking, it keeps on ticking 

Though it's only inside my head 

The light is flicking and hell is kicking 

A believer before it's dead 

And I'm looking to the hourglass 

That's running out of sand 

I'm looking through the hourglass 

Into another land 

I hear a crying of people dying 

And it's taking me to the street 

Intensifying a self-denying 

Bringing will starve defeat 

And I'm looking to the hourglass 

That's running out of sand 

I'm looking through the hourglass 

Into another land 

Time is sifting away so fast 

Loving 

I've got to love what lasts 

'Cause where have your treasure 

You hide your heart? 

If you hide it in this world, you know it's gonna fall apart 

And I'm looking to the hourglass 

That's running out of sand 

I'm looking through the hourglass 

Into another land