Thom Yorke › Clock Acoustic Guitar Tab

Send "Clock Acoustic" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Tuning =  i.e. tuning on 2nd = A  goes up to B
tuning on 4th = G goes down to F#
e
B
F#
D
B
E
Part 1:
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--------8----------8--------------------8----------8-----------|
--9-9--90----9-9--90--------------9-9--90----9-9--90-----------|
--0-0--0-----0-0--0---------------0-0--0-----0-0--0------------|
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Part 2:
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--------------------12-12---------------------------12-12------|
--------8------------0--0---------------8------------0--0------|
--9-9--90----9-9--9-12-11---------9-9--90----9-9--9-12-11------|
--0-0--0-----0-0--0---------------0-0--0-----0-0--0------------|
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Part 3:
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--------------------11-11-8-7------------------------11-11-8-7-|
--------8-------------------------------8----------------------|
--9-9--90----9-9--9---------------9-9--90----9-9--90-----------|
--0-0--0-----0-0--0---------------0-0--0-----0-0--0------------|
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Alternates between each part throughout the song (sometimes add an open E as a bass note
as the already open B)
go on you tube and look at the thom yorke plays clock live video to get an idea of the
etc

Send "Clock Acoustic" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/t/thom_yorke/359702.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Bassdude Average	#1 by Bassdude at Oct 1, 2007 at 4:18 PM EST
	In addition to the climate change interpretation, this song works very well as a love song.

No Picture steven Lead Player	#2 by steven ratliff at Oct 3, 2007 at 3:26 AM EST
	SoConstantine-- it's because it is the most important thing of our age. Of any age. Think about how the population keeps growing, arable land becoming scarcer, trees (oxygen providers) being cut down, ozone depletion- thus hotter, thus drying up water (already happening in Darfur) and melting glaciers, killing eco-system supporting plankton (which depend on ice to insulate them from sun), and people being oblivious to all of it. I think I would write about that as well. It's difficult to set aside and forget about.

No Picture steve Wanna Be	#3 by steve hoffmann at Oct 3, 2007 at 10:56 PM EST
	Hmmmm.... is it about big corporate donations to charities/good causes, thinking they can pay off the blame? "Throw coins in the wishing well for us." Example: BP's disgusting advertising campaign telling us how much they're doing for sustainable energy research. THANKS BP, YOU ENVIRONMENTAL HEROES!

No Picture Matt Lead Player	#4 by Matt Beach at Oct 5, 2007 at 10:35 AM EST
	This song speak about god, thom yorke is speaking with god, telling that the end of the times come to earth, and god just move the hands upon de clock and throw coins on wishing well, york tell him that it comes to begging you to stop. Yorke means that lucifer come to begging god to stop playing with his creation, and like final comentary yorke say to god that he make believe he will still in charge.

No Picture Derek Average	#5 by Derek Mayfield at Oct 7, 2007 at 5:22 AM EST
	The music in this song, particularly at the beginning, reminds me of some Spyro the Dragon game.

No Picture Average	#6 by vix at Oct 8, 2007 at 7:43 AM EST
	not much to add to this, think jballer n black cow pretty much nailed it. there is also the small hint of nukes "make believe that you are still in charge", man controls man, but nature is ruling, mother earth fighting back through global warming. and governments are starting to notice, trying to turn back the clock on the environment with climate change bills that are too little too late, and throwing coins making wishes, coz its too little too late. good accoustic version too.......

No Picture chris the pirat Lead Player	#7 by chris the pirate. arr at Oct 8, 2007 at 8:29 AM EST
	The live acoustic version was better

No Picture Josh Average	#8 by Josh Duncan at Oct 8, 2007 at 9:10 AM EST
	exactly. they push the issue to the side and leave it up to someone else to fix and that someone leaves it up for someone else and the cycle has turned into a big shameful mess of lack of leadership. keep on pushin thom!

No Picture Eric Rhythm Player	#9 by Eric at Oct 9, 2007 at 5:23 AM EST
	"You make believe that you are still in charge" Climate change is out of control. We can't stop it now, but we can stop it happening 100 years from now. Except we won't, because people want sports cars and swimming pools and walk in refrigerators.

No Picture Trey Average	#10 by Trey Davis at Oct 11, 2007 at 1:13 AM EST
	I'm pretty sure I heard Thom say in an interview that this song was about global warming and the fact that world leaders recognize it's a problem but just sort of ignore it. So with the line "But you just move the hands upon the clock throw coins in the wishing well for us" he's saying that our leaders waste time with talking and half-assed "solutions" to make the public think that they're actually doing something when in reality "Time is running out for us". I think he's also saying with the line "throw coins in the wishing well" that they are trying their luck and eventually its going to catch up with them.

No Picture Super Average	#11 by Super Q at Oct 11, 2007 at 12:48 PM EST
	I think this cause yorke said in an interview that he was reading about gnosticism, their lyrics are alittle dark and depresive, and he has a mental problem cause he discover the truth about god, so i think thom yorke believe in lucifer. The eraser is lucifer.

No Picture Derek Lead Player	#12 by Derek O'Kanos at Oct 11, 2007 at 7:47 PM EST
	"Move the hands upon the clock" Like being horribly late, but saying 'thats ok, I'll put my clock back a few hours" The common attitude at the moment is that if you ignore something for long enough it will go away.

No Picture mike Rhythm Player	#13 by mike jordan at Oct 12, 2007 at 11:34 AM EST
	its about global worming- "it comes to you, begging you to stop-wake up!" its about how time's running up and we keep saying things like "god, we godda do something about it..." but doing nothing but talking. talking, being useless- throwing coinds for luck...moving our hands upon the clock and making believe we are being helpful, making believe we are still in charg, but it's all just talking. amazing song btw.

No Picture Dunnie Average	#14 by Dunnie at Oct 12, 2007 at 6:46 PM EST
	the live acoustic version is pretty damn great

No Picture Spymaster Lead Player	#15 by Spymaster - Halo 2 at Oct 13, 2007 at 10:45 AM EST
	why are so many songs by thom about global warming? theyre so good, but i wouldnt expect that same theme over and over

No Picture can Wanna Be	#16 by can sahin at Oct 14, 2007 at 5:30 AM EST
	Wow. I totally didn't even notice that until reading your post, Black Cow. I was just enfatuated with the music and Thom's vocals; as usual. But it totally makes sense O_O

No Picture Tyler Average	#17 by Tyler at Oct 17, 2007 at 8:46 PM EST
	SoConstantine-- it's because it is the most important thing of our age. Of any age. Think about how the population keeps growing, arable land becoming scarcer, trees (oxygen providers) being cut down, ozone depletion- thus hotter, thus drying up water (already happening in Darfur) and melting glaciers, killing eco-system supporting plankton (which depend on ice to insulate them from sun), and people being oblivious to all of it. I think I would write about that as well. It's difficult to set aside and forget about.

No Picture Peter Wanna Be	#18 by Peter Lambden at Oct 21, 2007 at 4:57 AM EST
	I thought this song was about Nuclear Annihilation and the "Doomsday Clock". The doomsday clock is a device used to illustrate the threat of nuclear arms and other things of destroying the human race/causing major upset. The arms are moved closer to the hour to illustrate greater threat and moved further from the hour to show lower threat. Just recently it was altered so that Global Warming and the environment was included. That was after the release of The Eraser though so I think it's about nuclear threats and the Iraq war and how politicians throw money at the problem and "make a wish" that it sorts itself out. I love this song. So true. I love the whole album, it makes me shudder. I wanna play it full blast to the world and see the effect it has, which according to the lyrics of other songs, would be negligable. Such a pity. Start doing something about it!