Can anyone explaine the lyrics to Clocks by Coldplay to me... what does the song mean?

Answer 1

It is about the london bombings.

Answer 2

Lights go out and I can't be saved,
Tides that I tried to swim against,
Have put me down upon my knees,
Oh I beg, I beg them please,
Singing, come out of things I've said,
Shoot an apple off my head,
And I, Trouble that can't be named,
The tigers waiting to be tamed,

Singing, you are,
You are.

Confusion never stops,
Closing walls and ticking clocks,
Gonna, come back and take you home,
I could not stop what you now know,
Singing, come out upon my seas,
Cursed missed opportunities,
Am I a part of the cure,
Or am I part of the disease?

Singing, you are,
You are,
You are,
You are.

And nothing else compares,
Oh nothing else compares,
And nothing else compares.

You are,
You are.

Home, where I wanted to be home,
Home, where I wanted to be home,
Home, where I wanted to be home.

To me the song is about missed opportunities, his inner demons but that--

The title is an illusion to our lives our always ticking away.