Clocks And Spoons Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ginena 

Cover art for Clocks And Spoons lyrics by John Prine

This song is about the loneliness like I experienced after personal losses in my life, especially after my spouse of 30 years suddenly died…and every night you come home to empty rooms, looking at the dragging hands on the clocks, washing spoons after eating soup or cereal because you don’t bother cooking for just yourself. You just end the day seeing the face of the moon…which used to make you smile, but now you just want to shoot it and make it disappear, then turn out the lights in your empty room. What a way to end the day…lonely in the dark, without your loved one warmly near you. Don’t know where the time has gone, spent too much time looking for the dawn of better days…so now I want to run away back to the sunny countrysides of the life I lost and the life I miss…screaming in the pain of loneliness…take me back to sunny countrysides.