Coldplay: Clocks Meaning
Song Released: 2003
Clocks Lyrics
Tides that I tried to swim against
Brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead
Singin’, come out if things aren’t said
Shoot an apple off my head
And a, trouble that can’t be named...
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memphis10ec Aug 26th 2007, 10:15 report
This song reminds me of my lost First True Love. We were SO in love, it was like the world kept spinning but we were still, staring in each other's eyes. I swear she was all I could see. But eventually we broke up, and she left me...not for another person, but just to go on with life. The problem with that is, it left me hoping that we could still get back together. Day after day, month after month, I harbored this ill-begotten hope. Over time it got better; clocks kept ticking, years went by. Finally I was able to love again, but my First Love will always be deep in my heart.
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
Two interpretations here:
1. During the day I could distract myself, feel normal, not think about her....but at night, when I'd turn out the lights to go to sleep, not being beside her made me feel such anguish! It all came crashing down on me in the lonesome darkness of my bedroom. I would pray to God for some relief from being in love with someone who didn't love me anymore.
2. My first opportunity to have sex after we broke up, I couldn't do it. This is so embarrassing to remember! We were alone, clothes off, then the lights went out and I couldn't get aroused. It's like "she" was there. I was "begging and pleading" for myself to get aroused, to perform, but I ultimately had to beg and plead forgiveness. I told this girl I still loved my ex...and she said it was ok, but I never saw her again. Luckily I got over that (for the most part).
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
When I started dating again, whenever we'd drive past places my ex and I went, I'd get these...feelings. However, no way was I going to be able to express them. The places and the memories had to remain "things unsaid", but I felt them. "Shoot an apple off my head" is kind of like the dread on a date of passing one of the places that we shared and going right back to the past in my head, thus ruining the date.
Also, I know anyone in a relationship has had one of these moments: we're just driving along going to wherever, and my date says, "What are you thinking?" Oh God, I'm in trouble now! I'm thinking about "her" but I can't say her name to my date! That is the trouble that can't be named. And since I can't control when I'm going to think about her, She is the tiger in my head that can't be tamed. (BTW, if your date asks you what you're thinking, just say "politics" LOL.)
You are
You are
This is sung to "her". Anywhere, any time, any place, no matter who I'm with, she is...
Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know singing
Like I said before, she didn't leave me for someone else. She just didn't need me, I guess. So, even to this day I'm left wondering. "Closing walls and ticking clocks" reminds me of time I spent sitting alone trying to figure this all out. It was a waste of time, because there was no explanation. After our breakup, we still saw each other, but she moved to a town 80 miles away. I visited her as often as I could, even breaking the car down and having to ask my parents to come get me one time. But every time I visited her, I felt like this time I was going to come back and take her home. Or, if she'd asked me, I would have moved in with her and made her home my home too. I was so co-dependent on her, I "could not stop that" behavior. I was out of control.
Come out upon my seas,
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure
Or am I part of the disease, singing
I'm asea, adrift without her. The first line invites the listener to come and feel what I feel, get in my "boat" for a moment. "Cursed missed opportunities" is self-explanatory, but here's an example. After we broke up, I went to visit her one time. I don't know exactly how it happened, but we ended up having sex (I don't say "making love" because we were broken up, after all). Anyhow, in the middle of the night, I had to leave to get back home. What I needed to come home for, I can't even remember now! Today, over and over in my mind, I think that if we'd woken up in each others arms that morning, we'd still be together today! Talk about a missed opportunity!
Someone told me one time that the only one who could get me over her was me. Not her (she wasn't even around any more). So, I had to stop thinking about her and get on with my life. MY thinking about her, obsessing, was part of the disease. MY stopping thinking about her, getting back out there with a social life, taking chances, kissing someone else, etc., that was part of the cure.
You are, you are, you are
You are, you are, you are
And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares
I eventually got married, and so did she. She has two kids now, and is happy. I saw her for the first time in like 20 years, and we had lunch. Now we both know we can't go back, but we agreed no other relationship was like that one we had back then. Nothing else compares. (Oh, and about that confusion I mentioned earlier: I did ask her what the hell happened back then to make her leave me. Her answer: "I don't know". Can you believe it?! I have to laugh...or else I have to cry.
You are
You are
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
We never made a home together, but we did get engaged and we talked about having four kids and even what their names would be and everything! "Home" was where I wanted to go, but in the end it was not where she wanted to go.
Anyhow, CLOCKS keep ticking, and hopefully time heals all wounds.
Apologies to Coldplay if this is not what you meant. -
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iheartmusic Jun 27th 2008, 20:54 report
To me, this song is about death. but more specifically crossing over to the point where you stop regretting your life and find bliss in heaven. I think the music and lyrics almost contrast with each other, the music representing the bliss you find in heaven and lyrics voicing ones concerns they feel when they just realized they died or are dying. but this is only my interpretation and I think it means something different to everyone.
Heres what I think
Lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
You've put me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and please, singin'
This verse is about a man's fight to stay alive but how he just can't overcome death or time
Come out of things unsaid
Shoot, an apple off my head.
And the
Trouble that can't be named
The tiger's waiting to be tamed singin'
This is about everything unfinished in his life, the trouble that can't be named representing problems he will never even know he had and the tiger symbolizing the problems that he had that he will never be able to solve
You are
You are
These lines just represent how is life was unfinished, like saying to someone "You are ______", maybe he never got to tell someone he thought they were amazing
Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop but you now know, singin'
This is about the downward spiral into death and how time will always win the the end. Home in this line means heaven or the place where you go to die. "I could not stop but you now know" meaning I couldn't beat this but you know that now since I am dead.
Come out upon my seas,
Curse missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure
Or am I part of the disease, singin'
The first two lines of this verse are representative of your life flashing before your eyes when you die. you see all that you have and haven't done. The last 2 lines I think mean can I still escape death or is this who I have become and always will be?
You are, you are
You are, you are
You are, you are
these lines still represent the unfinished business
Nothing else compares.
Oh, no nothing else compares
Oh, no nothing else compares
These line connect music and lyrics because the person is just beginning to realize what a great place heaven is and that they are dead and will stay dead forever. nothing compares to their current state
You are
You are
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
these last lines could mean heaven (home) was the place he always wanted to go bu never knew it or right before he died all he wanted was to go home
and that's basically it. but what this song really means to coldplay, the people who actually wrote it, we will never know because that's the way they intended it to be. -
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anonymous Nov 30th 2006, 14:00 report
i think this song is about a man's race against time which carries an inevitable separation with the one he loves. The separation could be death,trouble,or whatsoever,but it is definitely inevitable.this song is his plea, reflecting his hopelessness of fighting the inevitable to come by each passing seconds.
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L_Ramirez Feb 10th, 21:51 report
In my opionion, "Clocks " interpretation is about a guy that is going through a fatal desease. The metaphor "Lights go out and can't be saved," Signals some kind of death."Youve put me down apon my knees," can interpetrate that he is begging for a cure. When ge says,"Shots an apple off my head," means he is under the deseases' full Control. The speaker expresses that he is still fighting against it when he says,"Tides that i try to swin against ." Then when he says,"Ticklinf Clocks," he refers to his fatal desease and how its taking over him and there is a short living time for him."Missed opportunities" refers that hes desease will not allow him to do the things he used to do; like if his going to die when he say,"Home, home, where i wanted to go," refers to hym wanting to go back how things were before he had that desease. All in all Clocks has many interperation buh this one cetainly fits the most.
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anonymous Feb 3rd, 21:31 report
I thought it was about taking a chick home and not being able to "get it up". "Tiger waiting to be tamed" "things
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R_Quesada Feb 1st, 01:32 report
This Song must be about a drug addition that the speaker must strive through. He talkes about how the light is going out which could be the light of hope and how he is tring to run away from it but it is as hard to do as going against a tide. He is also talking about how he is pleading and begging to get rid of this addiction but it is as hard to do as shooting an apple off his head or taming a tiger. Even though he so lost and confused the clock of his life will never stop and how he has missed out on many opportunities. Also he can't determine weather or not he is the victim or weather this addiction is his fault. Fianlly nothing compares to how hard going through this addiction will be and how hard the speaker must strive though to find a cure. In the end he just wishes he could just go back to the memories of his younger yearsbefore this addiction had started but now it is to late.
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N_Green Feb 1st, 01:12 report
I believe that the song is reffering to some kind of a drug addiction for various reasons. One example that supports my idea is the line that says "trouble that can't be named,a tiger's waiting to be tamed" this metaphor is used to express that this addiction is very difficult to get rid of and it's also very hard to confront it. The line "Cursed missed opportunities" also helps represent a drug addiction in the way that it explains how doing drugs can exclude a person from many things. Maybe the speaker had to give up a part of his/her life because of the addiction and had to miss out on opportunities. The quote "A part of the cure, or am I part of the disease" represents the speakers confusion as to wether he is a victim of the addiction or not. One last line that supports my idea is the end that says: "Home, home, where I wanted to go" because it describes how the speaker wishes to return to the past, possibly the time before they were introduced to their addiction and times were better for them then.I came to the conclusion that this is song is about an addiction of some sorts and the speaker is feeling resentful because of it but they feel as though it is out of their power to control.
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JordannaMusikBullet Dec 16th 2012, 12:53 report
I think the song is simply about all the pain, confusion, depression, and addiction in life.
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anonymous Sep 4th 2012, 23:12 report
My interpretation of clocks is that they r struggling against something inevideble and even tho they know this they keep trying and at the end they just wish things could go back to the way they used to be even tho they know that it can't. Just my opinion tho. - K
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anonymous Jun 10th 2012, 01:54 report
I think this Song has something to do with Monarch Mind Control, Aka Project MK Ultra. (look it up if you dont know what it is)
"Lights go out and I can't be saved,
Tides that I tried to swim against,
You've put me down upon my knees..."
I interpreted this as that when he says "the lights went out" that meant his mind "went out" or is gone. (hes being mind controlled pretty much)
"tides that i tride to swin against",
He was saying sort of how he was trying to fight back and get away, but it was no use.
"youve put me down upon my knees" he has given up and surrendered to his controller.
"Oh I beg, I beg and plead,
Come out of things unsaid, shoot an apple of my head (and a)
Trouble that can't be named, tigers waiting to be tamed
You are, you are"
He is still "begging" and hoping his controller will leave him alone and stop. Pretty much he is hopeless and doesnt know what else to do.
"Confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks (gonna)
Come back and take you home, I could not stop, that you now know (singing)
Confusion. He is now in disociation.
Closing walls- he is being pushed out of reality, he is all alone in his fake world created by his controller.
Come out upon my seas, curse missed opportunities (am I)
A part of the cure, or am I part of the disease (singing)
He doesnt know if he is on the good side or the evil, he doesnt know if its for his own good, hes confused, still in disociation.
You are [x6]
And nothing else compares
Oh no nothing else compares
And nothing else compares.
You are [continues in background]
Home, home, where I wanted to go [x4]
He wants to go home, back to where his mind is at its regular state, not "controlled." he honestly isnt sure where home is, or how to get there.
This is kind of like the Wizard of Oz.
Well, thats what i think the songs about. -
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fishingforsomePIKE Dec 14th 2011, 14:11 report
The songs "Clocks" by Coldplay is about death, more to the point where you stop regreting your life and think how much better heaven is. The song and the lyrics contrast each other. The music represents the thinking of heaven and the lyrics voice concerns when someone is dying or has died. The first verse,
"Lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
You've put me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and please, singing." This verse is about a man fighting to stay alive but how he just cant overcome death or time. The next verse is about everying he has not accomplished in his life. The problems he'll never know and the "taming a tiger" is the problems he'll never be able to solve. the next verse is about the sprial of death and the time is near. "Home" means the heavens. The chours is about the connection between music and lyrics and how great place heaven is and they are dead and will stay forever. this song's iterption is upto debate buit i thinnk it is about death and you cant control it -
anonymous Dec 12th 2011, 02:52 report
This song to me is very clearly about a man who likes a girl but is so afraid of telling her that when he finds out she already knows he goes into a coma and has a dream in which he is forced to sift through his memories and morals in order to free himself before his body stops from the stress caused by the fear of telling the girl how he feels. the very beginning of the firs verse "lights go out..." basically him going into the coma. "i cant be saved" means that no one can save him because the problem isn't physical, its mental. "tides that i tried to swim against" is a metaphor for the twisting chaos of the dream he is in, because he is basically seeing all sorts of crazy objects that ether represent something about him or are part of his memories. "You've put me down upon my knees" means that he has become humbled by the experience that he is going through. "oh I beg I beg and plead" means that he is praying to god to help him escape the confines of the crazy world of his mind that he has been trapped in. "come out of things unsaid" means that what he is going through is because of something that he has been keeping to himself. "shoot an apple off my head" means he is being asked to do something very hard to say yes to (because if you have an apple on your head and someone is going to shoot it there is a good chance that you're head will get shot instead). "trouble that can't be named" refers to his feelings for the girl that he cant tell her. "a tigers waiting to be tamed" is a metaphor for the trouble caused by his feelings that he needs to sort out. the next verse in witch he repeats "you are, you are" isn't finished because he is trying to say how he feels about the girl but he is so afraid that his emotions prevent him from expressing his feelings. "confusion never stops" refers to the twisted and confusing chaos that his dream is exploding in to, and how he doesn't understand what his brain is trying to tell him. "closing walls and ticking clocks" is referring to his body that is vastly approaching the point when his heart stops from how he is so afraid of expressing his feelings. "come back and take your home" is narrating something that in his dream he is trying to find the girl he likes so he is calling out for her to find him. "i could not stop that you know know" refers to how no matter what he did he couldn't prevent her from finding out and causing him to enter this coma. "come out upon my seas" basically means that he is calling out for his minds representation of her to come out into the open so he can find her and hopefully escape the dream and wake up in the real world. "cursed miss opportunities" means that he is finally starting to realize the problem and thinks that if he had told her beforehand this might never have happened to him. "am I part of the cure, or am i part of the disease" is even more reference to him finally realizing why he is in the coma, which is because he assumed that the whole time he was supposed to find his minds representation of the girl, when really that was why he was in the coma, what he should have been doing was bring himself to realize how stupid it was to be afraid of how h felt. the next parts are his desperate attempt to overcome his feelings before his heart gives out, and how he finally manages to get a few words of how he feels out "and nothing else compares...". however it is to late and he dies, but as he is drifting in to death he thinks to himself how simple the answer is and how all he really wanted was to return home "home, home, where i wanted to go".
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J_Lombana Dec 12th 2011, 01:53 report
Time Moving By Too Quickly
Although the Coldplay song “Clocks” can be widely interpreted into almost every situation, the speaker seems to be engaging in a losing battle with time and his life ending. The opening line of “Lights go out and I can’t be saved” sound like he is on his death bed nearing the end and nothing can be done about it – he is past the point of no return. In the second verse, “Confusion never stops” suggests that the speaker doesn’t understand why his life is coming to an end so soon when he feels that he has so much more to accomplish. Similarly, “Closing walls and ticking clocks” signify that time keeps passing him despite his trying to fight it, and the closing walls is time caving in on him, thus the reality of death settling in. “Cursed missed opportunities” is a regretful reflection of the past wishing he would’ve taken more risks. In the chorus when the speaker sings “You are” and cannot finish the line, it gives the impression that he is dying and can’t gain the strength to finish what he has to say. “Oh no nothing else compares” may be referring to the value he puts on his life, though it is dwindling down right in front of his eyes. The last line of the song reads, “Home, home where I wanted to go” which struck me as if he just wants to leave his death bed and go back to his home where he feels a sense of safety and security. Overall, this song proves to be the singer’s battle with time. -
anonymous Dec 12th 2011, 00:49 report
This song, Clocks, has much meaning in it. It can be interpreted in many ways and can be applied in many situations. But, this is song is strikes mostly as a relationship song. This speaker is a sad boyfriend, who's heart has been broken. By "tides that I tried to swim against", he means that he's gone through so much trouble and he's tried so hard to make things work. By "You've put me down on upon my knees" he means that he feels hopeless. When he says "part of the cure, or am I part of the disease", he's questioning and blaming himself. He's confused and regretful. You can also see how pressured he feels when he mentions how the "confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks". This line also means that time is running out, chances for a better relationship are running out. The interesting incomplete segment of "you are" shows how all he thinks about is her. No matter where he is, or he's with, it's all about her. The line "home, home, where I wanted to go", refers to him wanting to be in a more comfortable and happy place, when he and his girlfriend were happy and content. The overall meaning of the song is about how he regrets a breakup with his ex-girlfriend, and he wishes that they could get back together. This is such a poetic song that can fit into anyone's life.
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rory117 Dec 12th 2011, 00:00 report
The song “Clocks” by Coldplay, written by Chris Martin, is about an addiction that is taking over the speaker’s life. The speaker is someone who feels helpless against the powerful addiction and feels like he or she has lost control. The first line is, “Lights go out and I can’t be saved,” which means that the speaker feels like he or she is in the dark, lost and hopeless. The speaker is losing the fight against the addiction, and uses a metaphor, “Tides that I tried to swim against,” to symbolize his or her weakness. The speaker says, “I beg and plead,” which personifies the addiction by making it something that the speaker can ask for mercy from. The speaker’s problem is a “trouble that can’t be named” because it is an unbearable subject for him or her to talk about, and he or she may be in denial. The addiction is like a tiger “waiting to be tamed” because doing so is nearly impossible, just like the speaker feels it would be to quit his or her addiction. The speaker says, “You are, you are,” but never finishes this sentence because he or she is confused and in denial. This is a trickier part of the song, and shows that this person wants to say so many things about the problem, but can’t. To him or her it is a shameful subject that cannot be discussed. The speaker feels like his or her options are dwindling, symbolized by “closing walls,” and time is running out to fix the problem, like “ticking clocks.” The speaker has “missed opportunities” because of his or her addiction. The speaker wonders, “Am I a part of the cure or am I a part of the disease,” showing that he or she feels any efforts to get better may have been counterproductive and actually made the situation worse. He or she says that “nothing else compares,” showing that the problem has taken over. The speaker says, “Home, where I wanted to go,” meaning that the addiction never made him or her feel truly happy, like being home would.
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anonymous Dec 11th 2011, 23:36 report
In Coldplay’s song “Clocks” the speaker tells a tale of a dysfunctional relationship that he can’t manage to escape. The speaker starts out the first verse by saying “Lights go out and I can’t be saved,” this gives the reader a glimpse of the speakers failed relationship. He then uses the metaphor, “Tides that I tried to swim against,” to show just how much he is struggling to get out of the relationship gone wrong. The Speaker then says “Confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks (gonna)/ Come back and take you home, I could not stop that you know (singing)/ Come out upon my seas cure missed opportunities (am I)/ A part of the cure or am I part of the disease (singing),” by saying this he is showing that he is wasting his time in the relationship, and missing out on opportunities. He also wonders if maybe his relationship problems are partly his fault. The song ends with the lines “You are [continues in background]/ Home, home, where I wanted to go [2x] (I went)/ Home, home, where I wanted to go (I went)/ Home, home, where I wanted to go,” the speaker can’t bear to finish the sentence “You are…” because he is unsure to of how he feels about his girlfriend. The word home is repeated to show resemblance of a ticking clock, because time keeps passing but he refuses to do anything.
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JRaybe1 Dec 11th 2011, 22:57 report
In the Coldplay song "Clocks" the speaker is trying to overcome an addiction, whether it is alcohol or a drug, and is realizing that he or she is helpless with no one to blame but himself or herself. He or she wants to return to his or her old life. The speaker is trying to overcome a serious problem-addiction-and wants to return to their old self. By the lines, "Tides that I tried to swim against/ You've put me down upon my knees," the speaker is saying that he or she is helpless against his or her problems and is struggling to survive, but now that addiction has taken over him or her and he or she is technically controlled by it, trying to find a way out. The line, "Confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks," is saying that his or her options are running out and he or she is running out of time to get his or her life together and fix everything that has been destroyed in his or her life. By the line, "A part of the cure, or am I part of the disease," the reader can grasp that this person thought that by doing this drug, or whatever addiction it is, he or she would be helping himself or herself from a life that they did not want. It would help him or her forget about the past, but really it has just taken over and instead of helping to forget about the past it has taken over his or her present as well, which will eventually ruin his or her future. This addiction has taken control over his or her entire life. A key part of the song is when it keeps repeating "You are." This is important because it shows that he or she is not able to finish his or her thought because he or she finds it extremely difficult to talk about it because he or she is basically in denial. This has become a daunting task because he or she really doesn't want to confess to the things he or she has done. It also could mean that he or she is in such a bad state that they can't even finish their statement. Finally, by saying "Home, home, where I wanted to go" is his or her last thoughts and words. He or she wanted to "go home" and return to his or her old life with more happiness, where him or her struggling for survival wasn't being concerned about death, it was more concerned with maybe finding a job to support a family, or something of that sort. They are both very difficult tasks, but facing death is much harder to overcome. This song can have many different interpretations, but to me this song is having to do with an addiction and struggling to overcome the bad choices that were made.
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Lizz1e Dec 11th 2011, 18:11 report
I think the song “clocks” by Coldplay is about a person who had given in to peer pressure and now regrets it and wants things to change. The person now wants to branch out and go on his own, do his own thing, but it is difficult to get out of these bad habits. By saying: “tides that I tried to swim against” the author shows that this obstacle won’t be easy to overcome and it will take work. He/she is surrounded by a society that brings challenges every day and must not give in in to what is easy but must learn to do what is right. The line “you’ve put me down upon my knees” shows that this person may not always seem to have the upper hand in the battle but must be strong enough to :“come out of things unsaid” and get past this. Even after the person has gotten out of the way things were, the lyrics say: “confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks(gonna)/come back and take you” which means that there will always be that temptation to go back to how things were but you must be better than those temptations. Towards the end of the song, “nothing else compares” to this new way of life, the singer seems happy to be getting past the old bad habits and getting on with his life. He feels at home and that’s what he wanted. So, we can conclude that the person has gotten over the battle and come out better on the other side.
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jisola Dec 11th 2011, 15:25 report
The song "Clocks" by Coldplay has to do with fighting a losing battle with an addiction. The speaker starts out with saying "Lights go out and I can't be saved/Tides that I tried to swimm against/you've put me downn upon my knees". The speaker is saying that his addiction has taken over the person he use to be. When the speaker says "Come out upon my seas, curse missed opportunities" he/she is talking about how many life experiences have passed him by due to their drug or alchohol addiction. Lastly, the speaker says in the last verse "home, home, where I wanted to go". Home is referring to the person they were before the addiction started. Sometimes going back "home" to the person you want/use to be is hard when ann addiction is pulling you back to a place you do not want to go or a person you do not want to be anymore.
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LodiHighInterpreter Dec 11th 2011, 02:52 report
The song "Clocks" by Coldplay tells the tale of the speaker, who is losing his grip on his loved ones as well as reality as he struggles with insanity. The first evidence of this is shown by "lights go out and I can't be saved", showing us that the speaker's sanity has left him, with the lights of his brain going out, and his acknowledgement that there is little chance of recovery, by saying he cannot be saved, like many of the mentally unstable. The speaker asks those around him to help him get over this, "shoot an apple off my head", to do this very hard task. He is unsure of his condition, "trouble that can't be named", but knows it is out of control, "a tiger's waiting to be tamed", then the speaker tries to address his condition, but cannot bring himself to, "You are, you are". He is always confused, and aware of his time running out to find a cure, "confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks". The speaker asks for someone to save him from his uncontrollable symptoms "come out upon my sea". Then, he wonders if his efforts are hurting him, or only making things worse, "am I a part of the cure or am I part of the disease". Lastly, after several attempts to state his condition, "You are", the speaker repeats a few times that he had wanted to go home, but since he says "wanted", in the past tense, he is possibly accepting aid for his condition, and needs to stay at some place like an institution, away from home,saying that although he had wanted to go to home in the past, know he just wants to be cured, "home, home, where I wanted to go".
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| 1 | Beatles |
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| 2 | Ed Sheeran |
| 3 | Eminem |
| 4 | Coldplay |
| 5 | Taylor Swift |
| 6 | Pink |
| 7 | Rihanna |
| 8 | Linkin Park |
| 9 | Silverstein |
| 10 | Imagine Dragons |
