Lyric discussion by arosenheim 

Cover art for Four Of Two lyrics by They Might Be Giants

I thought that the song might be about a mural of a clock...similar to the Strong Bad note above. I pictured the ending as him weakly lying on the ground as an old man next to the rubble of a building with the clock still painted on a piece of the wall that had fallen years ago. The clock would lying on top of a pile of rubble.