Tick Tock (Message Bound Mix)

Not looking for pardons

I know I'm a creature of conscience

Who's hailing the demons they've harnessed

And wondering what they've accomplished

They're messing with time

Floating around me

Delving inside

Head being pounded

Dimming the lights

The louder I shout

The harder they fight

You're reeling your spirit

Uncover the smoke and the mirrors

Remember the person envisioned

Determined and ready and willing

The ticking of time

The count of the clock

You're hoarding the why's

When everything's wrong

The hands of my life

The hours I've lost

Take it all back

You're all that you've got

But is this who I'm meant to be

Concerned about the future with

Every breath I breathe

No

But this is who you're meant to see

For underneath the dirt

Forms the roots of self-belief

Where you'll say

I can be happy

I can be anything that I want

I could be healing

I could be dreaming

Building a castle in the stars

And if this world won't light the way

Then I will be my own escape

I should be free

I should be everything that I need

I should be smiling madly

Loving laughing

Everything that I seek

And I won't wear myself away

From counting hours

In the day

Tick

Tock

The chime it never goes

I keep dotting all the crosses playing

Tic tac toe

With the demons in my head

They keep signing on the o's

If I'm ever gonna win

I need to get out of this hole

Tick

Tock

Time is passing on clocks

I never count the hours

I know one day they'll stop

And if they stop

A little bit too soon

Will I spend the moment

Wondering was I a fool

I keep wondering

What's wrong with me

Looking around

Don't like what I see

Maybe I'm different

Maybe I'm broke

All I know is this place

Makes me choke

With it's

Gaseous

Rancidness

Seeping through the streets

Everybody's laughing

But everybody reeks

If I don't fall in line

I'll be targeted for sure

Cause the way I am

It doesn't suit their cause

Tick

Tock

Life Is getting boring

I just keep snoring

Whilst everyone else is applauding

They're happy with the way that things are

But I'm not

They're happy just to stay till they rot

But I'm not

I need to live

I need some life

Inside these walls

Everything has died

I really need that resurrection in me

Someplace I can be

Where I just can't see these

Damn

Clocks

Tick

Tock

The chime it never goes

I keep dotting all the crosses playing

Tic tac toe

With the demons in my head

They keep signing on the o's

If I'm ever gonna win

I need to get out of this hole

Tick

Tock

The time it never stops

I could count the hours days and minutes

Till I lose the plot

And if that plot

Is lost a bit a too soon

Will I spend the future

Wondering was I fool and

I keep wondering

When will I be free

Looking around

At the cage where I sleep and

Maybe I'm the enemy

Maybe I'm the ruse

All I know

Is this place has been cruel

Tick

Tock

Life has started crawling

I just keep on stalling

Everything is so appalling

I'm mad about the way that things are

But they're not

I'm mad about the roles and the parts

But they're not

I need some lift

I need some flight

For on the ground

Everything has died

I really need that resurrection in me

Someplace I can be

Where I just can't see these

Damn

Clocks

Tick

Tock

The chime it never goes

I keep dotting all the crosses playing

Tic tac toe

With the demons in my head

They keep signing on the o's

If I'm ever gonna win

I need to get out of this hole

Cause I'm sick of all the people that have taunted me

A good guy going bad inside his privacy

For everything I am am I the honest me

I need to be the one with no apologies

Tick

Tock

The chime it never goes

I keep dotting all the crosses playing

Tic tac toe

With the demons in my head

They keep signing on the o's

If I'm ever gonna win

I need to get out of this hole

Tick

Tock

The chime it never goes

I keep dotting all the crosses playing

Tic tac toe

The demons in my head

They keep signing on the o's

If I'm ever gonna win

I need to get out of this hole

We are union

Voices of the mind

That speak against our failings

When we know they're our design

We can't choose happiness

Nor can it choose us

We just count our numbered days and

Hope it shows on up

But

It doesn't mean that you

Still shouldn't try

Cause as long as there's that chance

Then you deserve a better life

A life of pieces

Held with plasters on the walls

And even though it's taking years

You know that time won't make them fall

And

You might not want this

To live a life that hurts

But if everything was perfect

Would you really know your worth

Because through thickened skin and countless scars

Emerges something hidden

A person who forgets the clock

And time that they've been given

So you mustn't chase it

For the future will come fast

From birth to dust

Our steel will rust

So make the moments last

And if you sink

And get hit hard

Remember you're still living

For the person who still carries on

Prevents the demons winning