Flake

Here's a song about finding the energy for what matters and figuring out what doesn't as your mental reserves dwindle day by day. I'm sure more than a few people out there can relate. It's not my best work by any measure, but I like it. I call it "Flake"

Every day a new parade

Every day a new way to play

Every day a promise made

Every day a debt repaid

And I can’t care

The glass castle I built shattered long ago

So I won’t stare and I won’t share

If that makes you want to

Then go ahead and gloat

Every day I get more tired

Every day I’m somehow inspired

Every day is lost desire

Every day another log on the fire

And I don’t care

Life exists beyond all the proud facades

No I don’t care about who’s there

All my energy is lost

All of the things we said

You could say we made this bed

But you won’t see me turn red

I don’t have life in me but I’m not dead

So tell me why

Why the power struggles make you cry

One day we’ll all die

So find what matters

Show the world your love before it’s too late

Find what matters

Don’t you see what’s at stake?

Every day I get more tired

Every day I feel so inspired

Every day is new desire