All the Tiredness

All the tiredness that you've held in waiting,

In abeyance,

Now comes rushing in.

Floods the bloodstream, burrows in the brainstem,

Grinds down bone-deep,

The exhaustion's stored from way back when.

All the tiredness you've postponed forever,

Buried treasure,

The price you pay for simply keeping your hand in.

Hold the darkness back for a moment.

Hold the darkness back for just as long as you can.

So, suddenly very slow,

Suddenly can't outrun the undertow.

No, suddenly I don't know

Anything but this sense of letting go.

Low, down to the ground I go,

Beaten down by the years of body blows.

Though I made it through the shows

Something got left behind, a debt I owe....

All the tiredness

Held in store

Saved up from before

My old friend

Mounts up in the end

Wears you down in the end

Mounts up in the end.