Not to be totally unoriginal, but the lyrics to this song are incredible.
The central theme of this song is time, no doubt. Clcoks is an incredible title because if you think about it, time is very difficult to measure without clocks(and sometimes still difficult to measure).
I believe in the opening stanza the writer of the song realizes that he is mortal and that the one truth in his life is that he will die(tides that i tried to swim against). However, this realization of his own mortality forces him to try and do great things(the tiger's waiting to be tamed).
The begining of the second stanza refers to the fact it's only a matter of time before the walls "close in" on us(death) and take us back home(heaven, reincarnation, whatever you believe in). The line "I could not stop that you now know" is kinda tricky in my opinion. In one sense, he could be referring to the fact that you just can't stop living because you know that you are going to die. Also, he could be referring to the fact that he couldn't just end the song right there without further explaining himself. The last two lines of the stanza strike me as this: he wonders if this song will be good for people because now they will want to live to the fullest knowing that the walls are always closing in(part of the cure) or if it will deeply discourage them because nothing we do can change the fact we will die(part of the disease).
All in all, this is just a fabulously written song. It's up there with "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce and "Wish You Were Here" by Floyd as songs that use very few words to say so much
Not to be totally unoriginal, but the lyrics to this song are incredible.
The central theme of this song is time, no doubt. Clcoks is an incredible title because if you think about it, time is very difficult to measure without clocks(and sometimes still difficult to measure).
I believe in the opening stanza the writer of the song realizes that he is mortal and that the one truth in his life is that he will die(tides that i tried to swim against). However, this realization of his own mortality forces him to try and do great things(the tiger's waiting to be tamed).
The begining of the second stanza refers to the fact it's only a matter of time before the walls "close in" on us(death) and take us back home(heaven, reincarnation, whatever you believe in). The line "I could not stop that you now know" is kinda tricky in my opinion. In one sense, he could be referring to the fact that you just can't stop living because you know that you are going to die. Also, he could be referring to the fact that he couldn't just end the song right there without further explaining himself. The last two lines of the stanza strike me as this: he wonders if this song will be good for people because now they will want to live to the fullest knowing that the walls are always closing in(part of the cure) or if it will deeply discourage them because nothing we do can change the fact we will die(part of the disease).
All in all, this is just a fabulously written song. It's up there with "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce and "Wish You Were Here" by Floyd as songs that use very few words to say so much