Fighting Atrophy - Joey Cape

Unyielding pace, white-knuckled

Cerebral break, the muscle fighting atrophy, the closing gap

Waking each day in alarm

Reprise, replay as though a necessary talk compels us all to arms

Maybe we need a life map

From the disease, the relapse

Breathe in, breathe out, detach, calm down

How can we stay connected?

Unsettled, subjected to everyone’s concern in unison

Anxiety and panic

Withering frames, the frantic screaming at the sky as their dehumanized

Maybe we need a life map

From the disease, the relapse

Breathe in, breathe out, detach, find a way out

I hear there are monsters in your room

Acute and chronic

Even those demons aren’t immune

Plentiful of pressure, nights awake, terror, agony

Maybe we need a life map

Surrendering the roadmaps

Programs, policy, certainty, absolutes

I know the monsters in your room

Acute and chronic

Breathe in, breathe out, I know the way out

Even those demos aren’t immune

Susceptible to restraint, mercy

They’ll vacate when you stop fighting