Running in Place
Running in Place: Navigating Life's Demands and Finding Purpose
Lyrics
Can someone
Expressing a plea for assistance
Can someone help me?
Reiteration of the request for help
Can someone
Seeking a reason to continue living
Give me one reason to live?
Questioning the purpose of life
When I gave
Having given everything
All I had to give
An expression of having exhausted resources
But this life keeps
Life's continuous demands despite efforts
Demanding so much more
The feeling of being overwhelmed by expectations
Do I even have the strength
Doubting one's ability to recover emotionally
To scrape my heart off the floor?
Struggling to recover from emotional distress
I need to pull together
Trying to gather remaining strength
What's left of me
Attempting to salvage what's left
And pick my head up
Attempting to regain self-awareness
So I can see
Striving for clarity
Who I Am
Searching for identity
And who I am supposed to be
Questioning purpose and identity
Its getting old
Feeling fatigued from questioning purpose
Asking what my purpose is
Continued uncertainty about life's meaning
Because I really didn't ask for this
Feeling like life was imposed rather than chosen
It chose me
Acknowledging life's imposition
Cover my tracks
Trying to hide past mistakes or regrets
As If I never took a single step,
Attempting to conceal past actions
Grasping the chain
Feeling controlled by circumstances
That pulls me closer
Being drawn toward negative consequences
To my death
Heading towards a self-destructive path
Dig so deep
Intensely exploring personal issues
That the walls cave in
Being in a deeply troubled state
Rock bottom looks pleasant from here
Seeing despair as a more comfortable state
I see what I want to see
Choosing to perceive things selectively
And say what I want to say
Expressing oneself despite constraints
But there's too much pressure
Feeling pressured to change family history
To change the family name
Concerns about familial legacy
Drug addicts and alcoholics
Reflecting on a troubled family background
Is from where I came
Origins from a troubled family
Thankful for my Mom
Gratitude towards a supportive figure
Who helped me not go completely insane
Acknowledging assistance in maintaining sanity
Am I the one who should forgive
Questioning forgiveness in a difficult situation
Oh God
An appeal to a higher power for a reason to live
Can someone
Reiteration of the plea for a reason to live
Give me one reason to live
Continued plea for a reason to continue living
Cover my tracks
Wanting to hide past actions
Just let them wash away
Desiring to erase evidence of past mistakes
At least then you could say
Feeling a desire to avoid leading others astray
I never led you astray
Concern for not being a negative influence
Two steps forward
Struggling to make progress
And four steps back
Feeling stuck and regressing in life
Feels like I'm running in place
Sense of stagnation, feeling unproductive
Live for the thrill of the chase
Finding excitement in chasing goals
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