Lyrics

Everyday feels like a race to beat the hands

that move across the faceless clock,

ticking endlessly

And I’d really like to stop and talk

but there’s no time,

Got to stay on top of everything.

Deal with all this junk mail,

gotta shred my paper trails,

I think that I’ve got electronic fatigue –

My cell phone’s now a part of me,

and I promise you that

I can’t live without my mp3s

The bank just called,

seems that it’s been compromised,

my identity - All these complications...

...Stealing minutes from my life,

and time is only sand through my fingers,

Every time I think I’ve got a grip

on the daily grind, Some new drama bilges

from the bottom and I'm swept away.

Where did I lose so much time?

Haven’t kept my schedule straight,

I’m all ready late for tomorrow!

My debit card is overdrawn,

Guess I’ll have to borrow from Peter again,

good thing he’s a friend...

How did this happen, when did this breakdown

start spreading like disease?

Now I’m like a broken branch fallen from

the tree that used to be the whole of me...

And I can’t make up my mind,

should I just let go

and let the flow take me away

You keep asking questions,

but I don’t have the answers.

Oh, what can I tell you?

I stopped answering the telephone

two months ago! Oh I don’t know, I don’t know

if I want to get back up and face another day,

if modern life means living this way.

And I can’t make up my mind,

should I just let go and let the flow take me

Like a broken branch fallen from a tree

that used to be the whole of me...

Have I lost my humanity,

cause I’m paralyzed by digitization?

I can’t talk, cause I can’t think –

do I hear the sound of my own voice

Telling me it’s time to make a choice –

oh I don’t know, I don’t know...

I can’t stand to face another day

if modern life means living this way

All these trees we’re killing

to make paper, paper, paper! -

Now this paper’s strangling me

Did you hear the sound

of the paper avalanche,

rumbling in the distance?

Now it’s chasing me,

like roaring white thunder...

Oh this avalanche is pulling me under –

Tearing my life asunder...

Burying my branch, my broken branch,

Fallen from a tree that used to be

the whole of me. Now I’m swept away,

And I can’t stand to face another day.

Guess the trees have had the final say...

I can’t stand to face another day.

Mmmmmmm...Hhhhmmm...

Mmmmmmm...Hhhhmmm...

©2008 Blues Mama Music

Music / Tyler Cusson

Lyrics / Raven Cusson