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Tick Talk lyrics
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Intro
Yeah, finally got a mouth - bout time, right? Seven billion clocks and not one of y'all wind me back
Pre-chorus
You set alarms for me but never ask me how I'm doing I been running since the bang and honestly? I'm barely cruising
Verse 1
I watched the first atom split and yawn before the dust could settle Saw continents break up worse than your girl - I watched them pedal Apart like slow-motion heartbreak across a million summers You think a Monday's long? I sat through every single bummer Your dinosaurs had sixty million years and blew the audition I gave them teeth and size and what? An asteroid collision You name your months after me, your days, your little seasons But four minutes on this track and I gotta rush for reasons?
Chorus
Tick talk, tick talk, I finally got the floor Three minutes left to fit a billion years or more Tick talk, tick talk, your song's already ending I'm infinite, you're trending
Verse 2
I don't keep track of me - why would I? I'm the tracker You built sundials, hourglasses - cute, but I'm the factor Your whole Roman empire? That was just my lunch break napping Cleopatra, pharaohs, kings - I barely caught what happened You carved my face on towers, strapped me to your skinny wrists Then panic when I move too fast like I don't get the gist I've been here since the concept of "here" was just a maybe You want me in three minutes flat? That's honestly crazy
Chorus
Tick talk, tick talk, I finally got the floor Three minutes left to fit a billion years or more Tick talk, tick talk, your song's already ending I'm infinite, you're trending
Bridge 1
You really think this bridge is deep enough to hold my weight? I carried every era on my back - I don't relate Your whole existence is my comma, not even my sentence But fine, I'll squeeze it in - consider this my penance
Verse 3
I saw your caves, your fires, your first wheel hit a pothole Watched Shakespeare write and thought, "He's speed-running my novel" Your wars are reruns to me, same plot, different costumes I'd change the channel but I AM the channel - that's the costume You say "time heals" like I'm your therapist on call I don't heal nothing, I just walk and let the pieces fall You built me clocks with Roman numerals to look distinguished I been here before Romans knew their language from extinguished
Verse 4
Mozart banged out symphonies - adorable, I clapped Your internet's been here twenty-something years? I napped Through longer stretches watching glaciers form and mountains fold You're mad your phone is slow? I buffered continents on hold Your "golden age" is my commercial break between the real shows I watched your empires rise like bread and fall like dominoes You set your New Year's fireworks like I'm impressed by sparklers I juggle galaxies for fun - I'm out here in the parlor
Verse 5
But here's the thing that gets me every single revolution You tiny little creatures keep on building through confusion You got a hundred years if lucky, still you chase the meaning Plant trees you'll never sit beneath and call that intervening I won't admit I'm moved - that's not on brand for something endless But watching you make monuments from minutes? Almost precious Almost - don't let it go to your heads, you're still a blip But for a blip? You do alright - I'll give you that little tip
Chorus
Tick talk, tick talk, I finally got the floor Three minutes left to fit a billion years or more Tick talk, tick talk, your song's already ending I'm infinite, you're trending
Chorus
Tick talk, tick talk, I finally got the floor Three minutes left to fit a billion years or more Tick talk, tick talk, your song's already ending I'm infinite, you're trending
Outro
Anyway, that's my three minutes - took you long enough to ask Next time give me an album, not a song I got stories that'd make your Big Bang look like a bottle rocket ...Later. I got everywhere to be.
Inside the recording
Yeah, finally got a mouth - bout time, right? Seven billion clocks and not one of y'all wind me back
You set alarms for me but never ask me how I'm doing I been running since the bang and honestly? I'm barely cruising
Anyway, that's my three minutes - took you long enough to ask Next time give me an album, not a song
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