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Clockwork by Phrase

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Phrase

Clockwork

2008

Lyrics

Clockwork

Round like a circle In a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending, nor beginning And never spinning free

Bounce now

Round like a circle In a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending, nor beginning And never spinning free

Yo what's up chaps It's big Phrase the villain Still writin' raps for the guys and the women Still rockin' mics and the skies are the limit So I jumped on this merry-go-ride for a minute Just to see if I could get around again And make a track about what's happenin' in the town and then Around 6 everybody just knocks off work And they all drove home just like clockwork

Tick, tock, another day gone Suns up, comes down, but it all moves along Somehow, some way, it all falls into place And we might stand still but we all fit in space The motion repeats as the ocean retreats And the tide comes back when it flows to the beach And the world goes around, around it goes You know what, life is but a cycle, go

Round like a circle In a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending, nor beginning And never spinning free Yeh everyday I wake to the same old paper Another fist fight with the pissed of neighbour Another piece to write pen back to the paper In the hope I write a track that might be a saviour At least just enough to get me outta here To the safe house with about a thousand beers And the big red chair with the birds eye view The world at work while I sip my brews

Tick, tock, another day gone And as one logs off, another logs on Another child's born and another man dies

And as one gives up, well another man tries It all makes sense like thoughts in my head That we're not much more than causin' effect And the world goes around, around it goes You know what, life is like a cycle, go

Round like a circle In a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending, nor beginning And never spinning free Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind

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It goes 'round and 'round like the pupil in my eye Seen enough to cry, seen enough to smoke Old enough to vote, man enough to die But young enough to care enough to ask why 'Round and 'round like the blood from my heart Pumped down through my veins then back to the start So I treat each day as my last And eyes set to the future and not the past

Tick, tock, and around again And then back to the point where I found my pen Yeh just to see if I can get around again And make a track about what's happenin' in the town and then Around six everybody just knocks off work And they all drive home just like clockwork And it all goes around, around it goes You know what; life is just a cycle, go

Round like a circle In a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending, nor beginning And never spinning free Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your- Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your- Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind Mind... Mind... Mind...

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