Century Plant - Victoria Williams

Outside my house is a cactus plant

they call the century tree

Only once in a hundred years

it flowers gracefully

and you never know when it will bloom

CHORUS:

Hey, do you wanna come out

and play the game?

it’s never too late (2x)

Clementine Hunter was fifty-four

before she packed up the pain

Old Uncle Taylor was eighty-one

when he rode his bike

across the plains of China (uh-huh)

And the sun was shining on that day

just like today

CHORUS:

Do you wanna come out

and play the game?

it’s never too late

Hey, do you wanna come out

and play the game?

it’s never too late

Didn’t know how to tell her

for all the thirty years

kept locked up inside himself

and no one saw the tears

and then she went away

and he woke up that day

now he brings roses to his sweetheart

she lives most anywhere

he sees someone suffering

he knows that despair

he offers them a rose

and some quiet prose

'bout dancin' in a shimmering ballroom

'cause you never know when

it will bloom

CHORUS:

Hey, do you wanna come out

and play the game?

it’s never too late (8x)