Heartbeat Clocktower

**Heartbeat Clocktower** is the fourth song of the "Clockwork Lullaby Series". It is additionally affiliated with, but not a part of, the "Four Endings Series". It describes the experiences of the Twilight Gears in Evil's Theater.

## Plot

The song concerns the guardians of the titular clocktower, whose role is to keep the gears working so that the doll stays alive; they muse about the tower's previous master, the embodiment of Charity, who had brought herself to ruin and left the doll with burn marks. After the text describes the "Collector", who created a theater for her "treasures", the gears watch the Master of the Graveyard and the quiet servant boy going about their daily activities.

The bloodstained scissors and purple katana remain dormant among the Vessels of Virtue, Utopia still unable to be created. Realizing that the clock has broken down and that the doll's time is running short, the gears put their hands together and sacrifice themselves to power the clocktower and fulfill their roles. At the end of the song, it describes how the one who built the theater loved her "father" the most, saying that someone new has taken the leading part now.

## Lyrics

The sound of the clocktower's gears

That is the proof that he is alive

So that this second hand doesn't stop

Watching over it is our role

The former master, a personification of charity

Why couldn't she realize sooner

That her own virtue would ruin her

One of these days?

The ugly burn marks

That remain on the doll's body

Even now etch the memories

Of those two

Today again, there are lost visitors

Pitiful guests who don't know anything

Before long, they will probably be delived

Into the hands of the Master of the Graveyard

That "boy" pretending to be the supporting role

Is absorbing himself in work as usual

While the loneliness of having lost his "counterpart"

Shows a little on his face

Just before her death, a solitary woman

Created that small theater deep in the forest

In that time, when it was left behind, it began to ring out

The Clockwork Lullaby

"Bloodstained scissors" and a "violet katana"

These days, we wait for those who have yet to wake

When all the songs have been recited

It appears Utopia will be completed

The clock hand stopping

Means the end of his life

The time left in those chipped and rusted gears

Isn't much longer

Just before her death, a solitary woman

Created that small theater deep in the forest

The one acting as curator is the one she loved most

The "Clockwork Doll"

Resolving ourselves

We joined our hands together

And reached deeply into our souls...

Our springs resound with the gears of the clocktower

And the story begins anew

So that the clock hands don't stop

We will continue to turn forever

## Related Songs

### Handbeat Clocktower

Handbeat Clocktower shares a similar melody, arrangement, and imagery with Heartbeat Clocktower. Both songs also focus on a person considered to be a father.

### Man of the Miniature Garden

Man of the Miniature Garden details the events that occurred prior to Heartbeat Clocktower, describing the life and near-death of the Clockworker's Doll and the event that led to him being burned.

### Master of the Graveyard

Master of the Graveyard details the life and interactions of the Master of the Graveyard as alluded to by the Twilight Gears.

### Master of the Court

Master of the Court recounts the goals of the Clockworker's Doll after the events of Heartbeat Clocktower, as well as his interactions with some of the other members of the theater.

### Capriccio Farce

Capriccio Farce recounts the later exchanges of the theater inhabitants after the happenings of Heartbeat Clocktower, as it details their later attempts to convene and locate Grim the End.

## Appearances

* Fae Lucif (mentioned only)
* Gear of Day
* Gear of Night
* Master of the Court
* Master of the Graveyard
* Mora Viwirtz (indirectly mentioned only)
* Waiter