3 O'Clock Things

"**3 O'Clock Things**" is the third track on AJR's fourth studio album, *OK ORCHESTRA*. The song can be described as an open book for AJR’s “shower thoughts” that occur at 3 in the morning. There is also a music video for this song, which was released on June 23rd, 2021.

## Description

This song is similar to "Three-Thirty" in both name and topic. "3 O'Clock Things" is mostly about issues such as politics, college, and racism, and how the band feels as if they shouldn't mention their opinions on such things to avoid losing their fans and/or friends.

The music video for this song makes references to many of the band's previous music videos. The end of the video shows them all in this order: "I'm Not Famous", "Weak", "Sober Up", "Come Hang Out", "Dear Winter", "Bang!", "Bummerland", "My Play", "Way Less Sad", and "OK Overture".

## Lyrics

[Intro]
Come on guy, I promise everything will be alright, be okay
Your eyes are tired but keep 'em open
'Cause you wouldn't want to miss a thing
Come on guy, I promise everything will be alright, be okay
Your eyes are tired but keep 'em open
'Cause you wouldn't want to miss a thing

[Verse 1]
It's kinda funny how I paid for college when YouTube was an option
But then I would've had to spend my best years
Skipping ads and reading comments
And when the hell did advertisements get so good? They're like narcotics
So now I'm spending every penny I own
I should've allotted to finishing college

It's kinda funny how I keep debating
If someone's shy or if they hate me
I feel like everyone I know right now is
Hooking up and getting wasted (Without me)
And maybe sex is overrated but we're too shy to ever say it
So we pretend we're all amazing
It's 3 am, I should be sleeping

[Chorus]
Would you go running if you saw the real me?
Maybe you'd love 'em
Yeah, maybe you'd feel me
But I'll never ask you, no that's super scary
Sorry to bail, it's already 3 o'clock
It's too hard to tell if anything's real or not

[Verse 2]
It's kinda funny how you vote for someone
To vote for someone, to vote for someone
And you might end up with someone evil but you say that he means well
If I keep on talking politics, my friends will dip, they're over it
If I keep on talking politics, I'm Hamilton without the hits

[Chorus]
Would you go running if you saw the real me?
Maybe you'd love 'em
Yeah, maybe you'd feel me
But I'll never ask you, no that's super scary
Sorry to bail, it's already 3 o'clock
It's too hard to tell if anything's real or not

Come on guy, I promise everything will be alright, be okay
Your eyes are tired but keep 'em open
'Cause you wouldn't want to miss a thing

(Da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da)

[Bridge]
Isn't this obvious, am I insane
Let's blame our parents 'cause they taught us their ways
Stay out of politics, stay on the fence
Stay out of all of it to keep half your fans

Isn't this obvious, am I insane
There might be two sides to everything that you say
It's all a bit cloudy but there's one thing I know
That if you're fucking racist then don't come to my show

(No, we have to do one more)

## Audio

* Spotify
* YouTube

AJR - 3 O’Clock Things (Official Audio)3 O'Clock ThingsAJR - 3 O'Clock Things (Official Instrumental)-23 O'Clock Things (Instrumental)
## Videos

* Official Videos
* Performances

AJR - 3 O'Clock Things (Official Video)3 O'Clock Things (Official Video)

AJR- 3 O Clock Things LiveLive on YouTube