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"Like Clockwork" by SPARE ROOM, live in Mandy's spare room, Brooklyn, NYC, January 2025

"Like Clockwork" is a razor-sharp anthem of self-sabotage—darkly witty and wildly infectious, it’s the soundtrack for anyone whose ambition keeps crashing headfirst into doubt, over and over again :)

Lyrics:
Lately it’s been on my mind
It’s going fine
But I know things could get worse

In every solipsistic mood
and twisted view
I tell myself I’m cursed

Like only I could get this far
But I’ll crash the car before
I ever see the end

Yeah I know I’m workin' hard
to cross the line
I’ll never get to win
‘Cause every time good things happen

I find every reason that it won’t ever work
Got a list so long honey I could write a book
I’ll jump ship, drop kick any kind of logic
Thank you for note, I’ll put it in my pocket
No crisis you could ever avert
I kill it like clockwork

Shoulda gave my all at 23
Gettin little older now
No one cares what I do in society

I can’t help but think the jokes on me
Start a band? but baby I’m nearly 30

At this point my mom had a big ole house and a whole buncha babies
Now I’m sittin' here all alone thinking damn, is anyone ever gonna date me?
Even if the universe could throw me a god damn bone
I don’t think it could fit in this f*ckin' shoebox I call my home home, home, home

If it’s good I’ll find a way to hate it
If it’s white I’ll find a way to stain it
If it’s new I’ll find a way to break it
If it’s free you know I’m gonna take it

If it falls I’ll do my best to save it
I take the weight and pray I can embrace it
But at times I feel like I can’t fake it
Reality sets in and I can’t take it….so I

Find every reason it won’t ever work
Got a list so long honey I could write a book
I’ll jump ship, drop kick any kind of logic
Thank you for note, I’ll put it in my pocket
No crisis you could ever avert
I kill it like clockwork

Written by Mandy Rodio & Miranda Rozas
Performed by: Miranda Rozas, Mandy Rodio, Nicole Paparozzi, and Henry Greenberg
Filmed & Edited by John Randall