The song is a metaphor juxtaposing the literal and figurative nature of the gears in a clock with the gears in your body. Both of them are the source of life within each body. It uses a simple baseline to connect the mechanical melody with the humanized plucked melody. There are many different endings to the drumming sequence, falling in line with the endings of either melody. The middle of the songs drops the tempo and figuratively shows the fall into darkness we all experience on occasion in our lives; however, it also shows how we all are capable of returning back to our old selves, no matter how far we may have fallen.