[Intro]
   

[Verse]
             
You're running

 
 out, your hea

vy heart, I ho

pe it slows yo

u down
            
I'll be your g

             
ravity and pul

             
l you to the g

#     
round
             
You're running

            
 out of solid 

         
ground, I'll b

e that tectoni

c plate
            
That shifts an

              
d brings your 

            
head back to t

      
his place 

[Pre-Chorus]
             
Everybody does

        
 their time on

 the fault lin

e
             
For now let's 

          
keep our feet 

on the same si

de

[Chorus]
            
Be the nine an

       
d I'll be the 

three
            
On a clock tha

              
t lies over a 

            
map of this co

untry
           
There's some t

            
hings that tim

        
e can't change

, oh 

[Instrumental]
  

[Verse]
 
That same tect

onic plate 
            
That shifts an

              
d brings your 

            
head back to t

      
his place 

[Pre-Chorus]
             
Everybody does

        
 their time on

 the fault lin

e
           
For now let's 

           
keep our feet 

              
on the same si

    
de
             
Everybody does

            
 their time

[Chorus]
            
Be the nine an

       
d I'll be the 

three
            
On a clock tha

              
t lies over a 

            
map of this co

untry
           
There's some t

            
hings that tim

        
e can't change

[Chorus 2]
            
So leave a pie

          
ce of yourself
              
And take somet

            
hing back too,

         
 back too 
             
There's some t

            
hings that jus

        
t can't change

 

[Bridge 1]
           
Father Time is

             
 a blurred bir

     
d in disguise
             
Who made his w

#          
ay to my shoul

#
der
            
It's weighing 

         
me down, it ma

kes me grow ol

der
           
I wish it woul

  
d all just sto

p
            
I put my all i

    
nto destroying

 his nest
            
It's weighing 

          
me down, it ma

kes us grow ol

der

[Instrumental]
    

[Chorus]
           
There's some t

            
hings that tim

        
e can't change
            
Be the nine an

       
d I'll be the 

three
            
On a clock tha

              
t lies over a 

            
map of this co

untry
           
There's some t

            
hings that tim

        
e can't change
            
So leave a pie

          
ce of yourself
              
And take somet

            
hing back too,

         
 back too 

[Bridge 2]
          
I'll be your g

#
ravity
           
The same tecto

    
nic plate; tha

t's me
         
Everybody does

              
 their time on

     
 the fault lin

e 

[Outro]
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