Time Seller(Unreleased Version without Strings, 1967/1999) - Spencer Davis Group

I know theres a man

Who can sell time

I can take it away and say

That its mine

He smiles from a distance

And lives in a tree

Holding out a welcome hand

A fist for you and me

Money is chocolate

Locked in a silver cloud

Everybody knows but no one is around

Theres no tomorrow

Only today

When it rains

Rains lemonade

So come with me and meet the man

Whose job it is

Is selling all this time

Before he spreads his wings and starts

To flying round the sky

People are shadows

Trapped in a golden well

And only childrens lives

Can break this spell

We live in a land

Where the clouds go on trees

Birds sound just like

A clean summer breeze

I know that this man

Who does sell time

Is someone whose life lives in my mind

Its all said to think that

There is such a man

When youre lonely

You can join me in his land

Come with me and meet the man

Whose job it is

Is selling all this time

Before he spreads his wings and starts

To flying round the sky