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Clockwork refers to the inner workings of either a mechanical clock (where it is also called a movement) or another device that operates in a similar fashion (such as a dial indicator). Specifically, the term refers to mechanisms utilizing a complex series of gears.
A clockwork motor is a clockwork device mechanically powered by a mainspring, a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon. Energy is stored in the mainspring manually by winding it up, turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter. Then the force of the mainspring turns the clockwork's gears, until the stored energy is used up. The adjective wind-up refers to mainspring-powered clockwork devices, which include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys.
One of the earliest known examples of a clockwork mechanism is the Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC geared analogue computer, somewhat astrolabe-like, for calculating astronomical positions and eclipses, recovered from a Greek shipwreck. There are many other accounts of clockwork devices in ancient Greece, even in its mythology, and the mechanism itself is sophisticated enough to indicate a significant history of lesser devices leading up to its creation.
Might as well have my alarm
Set on my phone, girl
It's like you got a camera
Don't know how you know
I'm home alone, girl
Come around ten forty-seven
Every Friday night
Might as well leave the light on
'Cause you're always right on time
You call, I say hello
You knock, I'm lettin' you in
You say you've missed my lips
We kiss, here we go again
Your dress, my shirt
We love, I live and never learn
I crash, I burn, you leave, I hurt
Like clockwork
It's like I'm walkin' down the street
And fall in that same trap, girl
I see a freight train comin'
And I just stand there on the tracks, girl
Somebody'd be gettin' rich if they were placin' bets
On me thinkin' no, no no; always sayin' yes
You call, I say hello
You knock, I'm lettin' you in
You say you've missed my lips
We kiss, here we go again
Your dress, my shirt
We love, I live and never learn
I crash, I burn, you leave, I hurt
Like clockwork
It's too easy, you know my street
You know where I leave my key
Baby, you know me,
I can count on you to count on me
It's like a movie I've seen a thousand times
I hate the end, but I still hit rewind
You call, I say hello
You knock, I'm lettin' you in
You say you've missed my lips
We kiss, here we go again
Your dress, my shirt
We love, I live and never learn
I crash, I burn, you leave, I hurt
Like clockwork
Like clockwork
Like clockwork