Name: Tim Fatchen - Cannot do and Cannot be
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: This should set the bar for any song about being caught in Limbo.

Tim Fatchen - Cannot do and Cannot be

from Twentytwentysomething by Stephen Wordsmith

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This should set the bar for any song about being caught in Limbo.

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CHORUS
Coffee or a powernap?
Meditate? Self-medicate?
Caffeine or a fever dream?
Snug myself or drug myself?
Five short minutes all I have
Five short minutes all I have
Drug myself or snug myself?
Fever dream or caffeine?
Self-medicate or meditate?
Powernap or coffee?

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Five short minutes all I have
Energy and time bereft
Cannot do and cannot be
Pockets empty, seconds left
Lonely hours of one to blame
Job well done while I'm not well
Toes a-lick by tongues of flame
Pearly gates of meeting hell

CHORUS

Stable open, stallion dead
Ready, willing, slipped, unable
Skivvy static in my head
Fight or flight or flip the table
Watching wrist at ticking watch
Pallet bed or mind a mess
Xanthine or a Sandman's kiss
Stream of blood or consciousness?

CHORUS

Cannot do and cannot be
Cannot move and can't decide
Cannot sleep but cannot wake
Cannot run and cannot hide

CHORUS

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from Twentytwentysomething, released October 14, 2021
Written for 50 songs in 90 days 2020
Lyrics by Stephen Wort
Composition and all instruments by Tim Fatchen
Vocals by Tim Fatchen, Tim Fatchen and Tim Fatchen:
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