Clockwork

By Phrase

On Clockwork

Released on April 24, 2009

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[Chorus]

Round like a circle

In a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending, nor beginning

On an ever spinning reel

Bounce now

Round like a circle

In a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending, nor beginning

On an ever spinning reel


[Verse 1]

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 (uh-huh)

Just to see if I could 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 drove home just like clockwork

Tick, tock, another day gone

Sun's up, comes down, but it all moves along

Somehow, some way, then it falls into place

And we might stand still, but we orbit in space

And 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


[Chorus]

Round like a circle

In a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending, nor beginning

On an ever spinning reel

Round like a circle

In a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending, nor beginning

On an ever spinning reel


[Verse 2]

Yeah, everyday I wake to the same old caper

Another fistfight with the pissed off 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

With 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

And it all makes sense like thoughts in my head

That we're not much more than cause and effect

And the world goes around, around it goes

You know what, life is like a cycle, go


[Chorus]

Round like a circle

In a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending, nor beginning

On an ever spinning reel

Round like a circle

In a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending, nor beginning

On an ever spinning reel

Like the circles that you find

In the windmills of your mind


[Verse 3]

It goes 'round and 'round like the pupil in my eyes

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 I step to the future with a nod to the past

Tick, tock, and around again

And then back to the point where I found my pen

Yeah, 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 the world goes around, around it goes

You know what; life is just a cycle, go


[Chorus]

Round like a circle

In a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending, nor beginning

On an ever spinning reel

Round like a circle

In a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel

Never ending, nor beginning

On an ever spinning reel

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...