[Verse 1]


How come twent

y four hours, 

Baby sometimes

 seem to slip 

into days?
            
Oh twenty-four

              
 hours, Baby s

              
ometimes seem 


to slip into d

ays
            
A minute seems

             
 like a lifeti

   
me, baby when 

I feel this wa

y
          
Sittin, lookin

           
 at the clock,


 time moves so

 slow
          
I've been watc

              
hin for the ha

       
nds to move Un

til I just can

't look no mor

e
          
How come twent

          
y four hours, 

              
Baby sometimes

     
 seems to slip

 into days?
            
A minute seems

            
 like a lifeti

   
me, Baby when 

I feel this wa

y.

[Solo] 
     
   
   

[Verse 2]

          
To sing a song

           
 for you, I re


call you used 

to say
          
"Oh baby this 

            
one's for we t

 
wo", Which in 

the end is you

 anyway
          
How come twent

          
y four hours, 

              
Baby sometimes

        
 slip into day

s?
            
A minute seems

            
 like a lifeti

     
me, baby when 

I feel this wa

y.

There was a ti

me that I stoo

d tall, In the

 eyes of other

 men

But by my own 

choice I left 

you woman, And

 now I can't g

et back again
            
How come twent

              
y-four hours, 

         
sometimes slip

 into days?
            
A minute seems

            
 like a lifeti

            
me, Baby when 

             
I feel this wa


y
            
A minute seems

             
 like a lifeti

  
me
            
When I feel th

            
is way... I fe

           
el this way