When an egg and a sperm meet, the clock starts.
I’m constantly looking at them thinking where did the time go. You kind of gauge your age looking at your children. Personally, having children has made me become more aware of time than any other point in my life. He and his wife are creating life together starting the clock in a metaphorical sense and a literal sense. Clock maker is a reference to there being a grand designer of all things living or AKA god. Her love is the only thing that keeps him going and helps him cope with not being there for them. A success that has in many ways pulled him away from what he wants to be more than anything, a husband and a father. How can you hate something that has shown so much love to someone else and is being given back to you unconditionally? In interviews he credits his wife many times with pushing him to follow his passion which resulted in his success. This is by far the most powerful line of the whole song. He also says “some days I hate everything I am but your love holds a mirror to me. Sturgill Simpson is Dianne’s chicken wonton taco. We talk Martian time, Kierkegaard, Tennessee, country fusion and choosing love. I believe he is talking about being the best dad and husband in the world that he has to now live in. Episode 73: We discuss Best Clockmaker on Mars by Sturgill Simpson with special guest, comedian Jerry Wayne Longmire. “I want to make babies til you say you’re through”. Obviously he is referencing his wife and being home with her enjoying life together. The song starts out with him saying “I want to grow old with you in the Mountain View”. I know, I know, this is out there but hear me out. This may be far fetched but my interpretation of this is he is referencing his children as the clocks. 'For thousands of years, time has been harnessed, politicized and weaponized,' writes technology historian and horologist David Rooney in his new book, 'About Time.' Rooney examines a dozen timekeepers from sundials and hourglasses to the atomic clocks on satellites that create GPS. But sometimes happy accidents gain meaning long after they’ve been created because they simply fall in line with the concept regardless of intent. Whether all of that is intentional or not is up to you. It’s also the fourth planet and this is his fourth album. Mars is the planet of war and he’s internally warring with doing what he loves while simultaneously missing those he loves. As an artist, Sturgill isn’t taking himself so seriously as to think he’s the first guy to do any of this or have any of these internal issues with being away from his family. He just takes a broken clock and makes it work/better. A clockmaker doesn’t actually make clocks. The clockmaker reference is an allusion to double-talk of the album’s recurring theme (there’s nothing new/everything has already been done). But he can’t do that cause he’s gotta work.
I think it means he loves his wife and wishes they could just spend all of their time together with their kids and enjoy each other’s company.
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