[VOCAL STYLE: drag words, slightly late timing, reggae phrasing] [Intro – whisper] tick... tockk... tick... tockk... can you hear it... [Verse 1] My desk clock goes tick tockk... tick tock... tick tockk... it counts outside of me tick tock... tick tockk... time is not flowing I am diminishing tick... tockk... tick... tockk... [Hook] tick tockk... tick tockk... each second tears a piece away... [Verse 2] I shut my ears thought it was silence but inside... thump. thummp began thump thummp... older than me deeper than me thump thummp... [Chorus] Thump thummp... tick tockk... Thump thummp... tick tockk... one strikes from within one counts from outside Thump thummp... tick tockk... Thump thummp... tick tockk... one feels like it gives life one slowly finishes it [Verse 3] We make noise on purpose songs screens crowds as we pass by a graveyard getting scared [Whistle – soft, breathy, human, slightly shaky] (füüüüüüüüüüüft) (füüüüüüüüüft) (füüüüüüüft) like whistling... so the thump thummp is silenced but... thump thummp never stops [Instrumental – dub echo section, bass + guitar delay] [Verse 4 – core] the first thummmp.!!! the pin was pulled right then you didn’t hear it but the countdown began the heart... does not only give life it starts your end tick tock is inevitable thummp... you walk toward the end [Break – spoken rhythm] tick tock... tick tock... tick tock... tick tock... thump thummp... thump thummp... [Verse 5] “They’re alive!” they said hands on the chest voices hopeful but no one said: “still dying”... a physician sworn to Hippocrates stays loyal to his lie as if giving life he only prolongs death... [Chorus – heavy] Thump thummp... tick tock... Thump thummp... tick tock... the alarm shouts but the heart... finishes in silence [Instrumental – dub echo] [Verse 6] I put my desk clock into the drawer tick tock stopped but... thump thummp did not [Whistle – soft, breathy, human, slightly shaky] (füüüüüüüüüüüft) (füüüüüüüüüft) (füüüüüüüft) [Outro – intimate] My child... if you hear tick tock don’t be afraid !!! but if you hear the thump thump remember !!! every beat is a subtraction thump thummp... tick tock... thump thummp... tick tock...
