The song has many biblical references in it, specifically the creation story; and with that, juxtaposing themes of evolution (Seen on the album cover: a Phylogenetic tree, classifying species, and what they evolved from). The title Watchmaker is refering to God, as in the Watchmaker analogy. It is a...
Serve or break the patterns
That would be
Echo positions of the free
Middle child of eternity
Caught between the
Branches and the roots
Move in any way that suits
The creeping vines of anomie
[Chorus]
I never wanted to believe
I never asked if I could stay
Switch the pressures you relieve
Forge your aggression in the clay
The art that I buried in the earth
Sketching parallels to understand
Why I can't share your love
Watchmen and makers in dissent
I’m only building what I meant
To do so many lives ago
[Chorus]
I never wanted to believe
I never asked if I could stay
Switch the pressures you relieve
Forge your aggression in the clay
[Chorus]
I never wanted to believe
I never asked if I could stay
Switch the pressures you relieve
Forge your aggression in the clay
Watchmaker was written by Sparkles*.
Watchmaker was produced by Sparkles*.
Area 11 released Watchmaker on Fri Jul 01 2016.