Lyrics
Running all your water down the drain
Disregarding or wasting your resources or opportunities.
Because your firewood gets wet out in the rain
Struggling or failing to protect what sustains you.
Is like trying to get acquainted with your pain
Attempting to understand or familiarize oneself with one's own suffering.
By putting words to everything that you can't explain
Trying to articulate or express things that defy explanation.
You write from every angle that you can
Expressing oneself from various perspectives or viewpoints.
To recognize your heart and all it's wounds
Recognizing emotional pain and wounds within oneself.
By the way it breaks when life gets out of hand
Noticing emotional vulnerability when life becomes overwhelming.
To how it falls and apart from overuse
Breaking down or deteriorating due to excessive use.
A fall is never under your command
Loss or failure is unpredictable and beyond control.
Hits you late or comes a little soon
Adversity arrives unexpectedly or at inconvenient times.
You always slip when life gets out of hand
Slipping or faltering when faced with life's challenges.
It's never up to you
Not having control over certain circumstances.
Why you fall
Questioning the reasons or causes behind a fall or failure.
Crazy and the day is tired and long
Feeling mentally exhausted or overwhelmed.
Hazy like a morning fog is blue
Unclear or uncertain, similar to a foggy morning.
You stretch out with your back against the lawn
Relaxing or lying down, perhaps seeking clarity.
And you lay there til the haze rolls out of view
Waiting for confusion or uncertainty to dissipate.
When nobody is sticking to the plan
Plans going awry due to others' actions affecting you negatively.
Cause everyone is sticking it to you
Feeling targeted or mistreated by others.
Boy that's when you start to understand
Realizing that control over outcomes is limited.
You only ever get to plan the follow through
Having influence only on how things unfold after the initial plan.
A fall is never under your command
Failure or adversity is not within one's direct control.
Hits you late or comes a little soon
Unexpected challenges arise regardless of timing.
You always slip, when life gets out of hand
Tending to falter when faced with life's difficulties.
But it's never up to you
Not having complete agency or authority over circumstances.
The heart never is under your command
The heart's actions or emotions aren't within one's complete control.
The heart is never listening to you
Emphasizing the lack of control over emotional responses.
Go ahead and try and make a plan
Attempting to create a plan despite its potential ineffectiveness.
I've never seen the good the plan has done, you
Suggesting the futility of planning due to unforeseen circumstances.
A fall is never under your command
Reiterating the lack of control over adversity or failure.
Hits you late or comes a little soon
Emphasizing the unpredictability of adversity or failure.
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