SZA - Broken Clocks

As an ex stripper who grew up going to Girl Scout camps getting in fights in strip clubs and getting fired this video and song always brings me to tears. This video/song reminds me of the joy of being little and feeling the joy of nature and friends, only to grow up and being forced into a bitter harsh world, and realizing time is of the essence and turning my life around from beautiful pain into redemption. Now I’m expecting my first child 👶🏾 and my life is so much different, but I don’t regret any of it because it all made me who I am today. How the time has flown by....

BITCCCCCHHHHH FINALLLYYYY

Enjoy your youth while you can it goes by fast

i think the message behind this song is beautiful, and resonates with many. the sense of the struggle of trying to break from old habits - such as leaving a toxic relationship, trying to not be late to work, trying to stop going back to the strip club - and how the struggle is similar to trying to read the time from *broken clocks*. it also can be seen as feeling as though you are losing time, and wasting it all because it feels as though you can’t do anything with your life. we all feel as though our lives are slipping away like the sand in an hourglass, or the time on *broken clocks*. either way, each of the messages show us losing control/ctrl of our lives - and that, as a whole, represents the entire album. how control is a concept we seem to all be chasing, however impossible it may be. we will never have control. and the poignancy within that, is what writes the lyrics and characterises the flow of sza’s music.

CTRL was literally the most perfect album

This video showed me that everyone needs to enjoy their younger years before the clock is broken which means it time for adulthood. That why she used summer as an example because we never want it to end. We want to live in the moment and burn daylight before it to late. To late cuz we have pieces and pages (bills). Working a job that doesn't value u. Enjoy your life strangers, live it up to the potential. :)

The girl who screamed "WAKE UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP" is freaking iconic!

SZA is one of the greatest artists of our generation

Dont anyone else miss the time when we all use to run around outside and play and junk like there was no tomorrow or is it just me

“WAKE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!”

Soooo we not gone speak how sza put the next name of next album in the song !!! “Sos you gotta wake up “

when she wakes up from her dreams of the past to her real job felt so relatable it dead ass made me start to cry

"I moved on for the better, you moved on to whoever" PREACH🤗

this song will NEVER get old

Growing up with strict parents and not having a taste of being with other children nor genuinely being happy as a teen is one thing that breaks me Literally Just woke up one day and had to work ,no teenage years nothing…. just living in complete sadness having a hard time finding myself🙂 At least such songs gave me a little joy

This song felt so good back then & it feels so warm now. Some of the best memories were made to this song!

Them jumping in the air gave me George lopez theme song vibes😭

🐸💯🐸💯🐸💯🐸💯🐸 How many people love SZA? 💯🐸💯🐸💯🐸💯🐸💯

Life when this song came out>>

I love how in the end she still has good friends who support her. This video made me so emotional. It sucks to see kids who have so much potential and life, end up in situations as adults no mother would wish for them. Sza's songs have some of the most real and relatable messaging for young females. She's like a bigger sister who's telling us to learn from her mistakes.