REWIND .. .
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The old clock is ticking by the wall of past regrets
A redwood clock of metal parts with a heavy winder
It sticks sometime like crushed pepper in the throat
Old Jon Rutherford of the brotherhood can mend them
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To set the clock you must climb upon the mending steps
Open up the back to view the gubbins and the metal parts
This place of many starts but the clock is old and fragile
Our honest indecision lost in this labrynth of precision
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Old Jon has an oil can, knows the soul as much as any man
He’ll tinker with your tock when the pendulum has stopped
Climb the wooden steps to view or kneel to say a prayer
Wisdom is a canvas bag of tools not a book of wooden rules
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