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Tick by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Tick

Release date: 27th April 2003

From Fever to Tell
Track 4
1:50
AlternativeMusicPunkIndie Rock
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About This Track

‘Tick’ by Yeah Yeah Yeahs is an alternative track from the album ‘Fever to Tell’, released in 2003. The lyrics drive at time as a force you wait on and that keeps “ticking”, with the singer insisting on a rhythm of making and taking time. The repeated tick-tick imagery suggests a mix of urgency and fixation, as if the moment of looking, deciding, and waiting is being measured down to the beat.

"Tick" is a track by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, from the album Fever to Tell, released 27th April 2003. The track is 1:50 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 13 articles about Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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Lyrics

Tick

You make me, you make me, you make me...
Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick
Time you take it
You look so good, you take your time
Tick-tick-tick time, you take it

Lets have a look
Tick-tick-tick time
Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick
Time, you take it
Time, you take it

Ha ha a hey hey ah ahh

You make me, you make me, you make me, you make me wanna...
You make me wanna... ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
You make me wanna... ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
You make me wanna... ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Hey hey, hey ah hey, ahh, ah ahh ah, ah

You make me wanna
You make me wanna
You make me wanna
You make me wanna...
You look like shit

You take your time
Tick-tick-tick time, you take it
Lets have a look
Tick-tick-tick time
Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick
Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick
Time, you take it
Time, you take it!

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Track details

From Fever to Tell

1:502003
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Album
Fever to Tell
Fever to Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
28th April 2003
Track number
4
Release year
2003
  1. 1Rich
    3:36
  2. 2Date with the Night
    2:35
  3. 3Man
    1:49
  4. 4Tick
    1:50

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