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Coldplay

Clocks

Release date: 1st March 2003

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Track 1
5:08
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The third single from Coldplay's second album 'A Rush of Blood to the Head', 'Clocks' arrived in March 2003 with two B-sides, 'Crests of Waves' and 'Animals'. The track runs just over five minutes, built around a repeating piano motif that drives the song's momentum.

Chris Martin's lyrics circle questions of agency and belonging. He adopts the voice of someone caught between opposing forces, tides, closing walls, ticking clocks, asking whether he is part of the cure or part of the disease. The refrain 'You are' repeats without elaboration, a placeholder for certainty in a song otherwise defined by doubt. The closing lines turn towards home, the word repeated until it becomes both destination and mantra, the place he wanted to go.

"Clocks" is a track by Coldplay, from the album Clocks - Single, released 1st March 2003. The track is 5:08 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Coldplay.

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Lyrics

Clocks

The lights go out, and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh, I beg, I beg and plead, singing

Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head, and a
Trouble that can't be named
A tiger's waiting to be tamed, singing

You are
You are

Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks, gonna
Come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know, singing

Come out upon my seas
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure?
Or am I part of the disease? Singing

You are
You are
You are
You are

You are
You are

And nothing else compares
Oh, nothing else compares
And nothing else compares

You are
You are

Home, home, where I wanted to go
Home, home, where I wanted to go
Home (you), home, where I wanted to go (are)
Home (you), home, where I wanted to go (are)

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Clocks - Single
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1st March 2003
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  1. 1Clocks
    5:08
  2. 2Crests of Waves
    3:40
  3. 3Animals
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