Tick Tock

Album: released as a single (2020)
Charted: 8
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  • Tick tock, tick tock
    (Clean Bandit)
    Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock (Mabel)
    Tick tock, tick tock (ay Beenie Man, we able, yeah)

    'Round the clock, 'round the clock ('round the clock)
    Inna mi brain you ah run 'round di track, yeah
    Give me your love girl, don't you stop
    Nuh bodda walk out, don't do that (no)
    I just wanna make you feel my love
    Anyting you like, give it to you right now (right now)
    I get you high when I put that down
    Tell you seh did ting mine, you fi bring that come

    (Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock)
    Gyal ah flex, and ah follow we (yeah)
    And ah seh dem haffi get one ah we
    But you ah me ah see without apology, yeah
    Baby come pull up di ting pon me (tick tock, tick tock)

    24-7 got you on my mind (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
    Think about you all the time
    My body wants you night and day (every night and day)
    But my head is screaming, "Go away"
    (Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock) Whoa, yeah, yeah
    24-7 got you on my mind
    Darling, I don't have the time
    My body wants you night and day (come on)
    I'm losing all control of me (zagga, hey)

    (Tick tock) Come, hey
    (Tick tock) Gyal whine up, yeah
    (Tick Tock) Oh, whine up, whoa
    (Tick tock, tick tock) Hey

    Gyal drop it like that, ticky-ticky tock
    Snap this, put it on Tik Tok (woo)
    Some gyal ah mrk noise like bedroom clock
    But you silent like a Rolex watch
    Every man ah watch you when you tick tock like Swatch (come here)
    'Cause yuh big broad hip and yuh waistline snatched
    Every man ah "psst" like when tire wan' patch (ay)
    Go pon yuh head, whine and kotch
    You got di place shut down like door lock, hey
    Gyal yuh hold me like Henkel glue
    You stop me when me supposed to pass through (you)
    Me lock you down like me sentence you (ah)
    24/7 yuh under curfew, hey

    24-7 got you on my mind
    Think about you all the time
    My body wants you night and day
    But my head is screaming, "Go away" (hey, hey, hey)
    (Tick tock, tick tock)
    24-7 got you on my mind
    Darling, I don't have the time
    My body wants you night and day (hey, hey)
    I'm losing all control of me (everybody go)

    Na na na na na (hey, hey, hey)
    Na na na na na na na (hey, hey, hey)
    Na na na na na na na (hey, hey hey)
    Na na na na na na na

    Every minute, so lost in it
    Like you're in my bed
    Every hour, give you power
    I'm losing mine instead

    Tick tock, yeah
    (Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock)

    24-7 got you on my mind
    Think about you all the time
    My body wants you night and day (every night and day)
    But my head is screaming, "Go away" (whoa, yeah, yeah)
    24-7 got you on my mind (24/7, yeah, yeah)
    Darling, I don't have the time
    My body wants you night and day (ah, yeah)
    I'm losing all control of me (gyal)

    Na na na na na (tick tock)
    Na na na na na na na (tick tock pon di clock, tick tock)
    Na na na na na na na (tick tock)
    Na na na na na na na (got me losing all control of me)
    Na na na na na (tick tock)
    Na na na na na na na (zagga)
    Na na na na na na na
    Na na na na na na na
    Tick tock, yeah Writer/s: Camille Purcell, Golden Landis Von Jones, Grace Chatto, Jack Patterson, Mabel Mcvey
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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