Cuckoo Clock

Verse 1

You wind the gears of your fantasy

Paint cracks over reality

Every truth is a blade you dodge

Every fact is a ghost you lodge

Mirrors scream but you shut them down

Build your kingdom on shaky ground

Tick‑tock tremors behind your eyes

You’d rather break than recognize

Pre‑Chorus

You twist the hands until they lie

Pretend the hours never die

Chorus

Cuckoo clock, you’re ringing wrong

Chiming midnight all day long

You keep hiding from the obvious

Like the world’s the one that’s dangerous

Cuckoo clock, you’re out of sync

You drown the truth before you think

Every second that you try to bend

Just brings you closer to the end

Verse 2

You stitch your stories with borrowed thread

Rewrite the past inside your head

Every warning’s a joke you mute

Every crack is a point you dispute

You call the storm a gentle breeze

Call the fire a minor tease

But the walls are shaking, can’t you feel

The weight of everything you won’t reveal

Pre‑Chorus

You twist the hands until they lie

Pretend the hours never die

Chorus

Cuckoo clock, you’re ringing wrong

Chiming midnight all day long

You keep hiding from the obvious

Like the world’s the one that’s dangerous

Cuckoo clock, you’re out of sync

You drown the truth before you think

Every second that you try to bend

Just brings you closer to the end

Bridge

You can’t outrun the pendulum swing

You can’t outshout the echoing

You can’t unmake the breaking sound

Of everything you’ve pushed down

Final Chorus

Cuckoo clock, you’re ringing wrong

Chiming midnight all day long

You keep hiding from the obvious

But the truth is getting venomous

Cuckoo clock, you’re out of time

No more seconds left to mime

When the gears collapse and the echoes stop

You’ll finally hear the final drop