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Artist: The Maccabees
Canonical path: /the-maccabees/precious-time
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Precious Time
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Precious Time
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Pound for pound and cheek to cheek
Cheek paler than the lamp-light
Take me down to light the box
And play Super Scaletrix
And turn to this darkness
Into light, and then I'll turn too fight
The better for hype
And I'll need heart and you'll need courage
We all need...
Toe to toe, nowhere to go
So I'm tiptoeing around it
I held you down and I held my own
And now I feel like I'm floating
So turn to this head on
Then keep on
Keeping on
And I'll need heart and you'll need courage
We all need time
So let's make time... work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Don't you know nobody knows
If there's somebody awaiting?
You'll hold yourself up and you'll hold yourself in
And pray that you are growing
And turn to this darkness
You turn it into light, and then you'll turn too fight
The better for hype
I'll need heart and you'll need courage
We all need time
So let's make time... work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about
Cause we'll need heart and we'll need courage
In these times
we'll need heart and we'll need courage
In these times
Cause time can mean so much
Are you still mine?
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