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Never Enough

from The Meridian of Rhyme by Qwiet

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lyrics

pull the plug, shut it down
surrender the mic, cut the sound
pack it all up, cut it out
drop the pen, you're done now
rinse the brush, close the book
say goodbye but you don't get to look
3rd quarter 5 minutes left... game over
but I'm just trying to make this go
how am I gonna explain this though
how am I supposed to sail the boat
when I'm just trying to stay afloat
the more I paddle the more I'm drowning
the more I scream the worse I'm sounding
gasping for breath
if I have any left
how come all my aspirations
gotta be like exaspirations
patience always masquerading
promise always has me waiting
always gotta stop to eat
always gotta stop and sleep
this body trapping my soul
let me go
all the aces I'll never show
all the places I'll never go
all the pages I'll never know
all the amazing I'll never behold
so much life I want to live
so much left I gotta give, tragically
I'm out of time - my point exactly

all i got
all my hope my strength my soul
it's never enough
all i got
all my hope my strength my soul
it's never enough

always waking me when I'm dreaming
always draining me of any meaning
berating me from the corner of my screen and
chasing me to another meeting
always two steps ahead of me
I try to step cleverly
but these shoes I can't fill
hurry up! ... stand still
running in place jumping hurdles
faster and faster they come hurtful
while you just sit there and observe it
1 through 12 just going in circles
in such a cowardly way - you're so redundant
24 hours in a day? I need about a hundred
every minute every second
just submitting to the pressure
sitting sifting through the wreckage
of another stupid checklist
my burdens provoking me
it feels like time is choking me
a rope necklace
so relentless
get up out of bed then off to work
I wish I could stop this clock work
take a rock and smash those hands
make them ticks and tocks hurt
see what power the hour has
after I shatter the hourglass
the sand drops
I stand and watch

the worst three words - wait and see
living in a blur of latency
changing the world is breaking me
but breaking free is changing me
gotta keep moving forward
my people - moving for em
let's see some new horizons
new forms rising
shake em and make em wonder what
just hit em in the face like an uppercut
faithful as the sun coming up
at the end of the day another comes
I kinda find it kinda stunning
it kinda reminds me of something
the world churns... the world turns
and it'll still be turning when i'm ninety
still be burning still be grinding
still be searching still be finding
still be learning still be shining
the numbers on the stopwatch
same as the numbers on the hopscotch
so whether it's race or a game it
just depends on the arrangement
I guess the better perspective is
to sweat and make the best of it
forever holds the rest of it
when I go i'm leaving everything
if there's one thing I know it is
no matter how dark the street I got hope in it
as long as I got a heartbeat I'm gonna flow with it

everybody go home
take your coats and your phones and your sno-cones
freeze the memories with one last photo
dance in slo-mo
chant the oh-ohs ... oh-oh!

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from The Meridian of Rhyme, released December 6, 2011

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