Work, School, Sleep

Intro

Work. School. Sleep. (work, school, sleep)

Work. School. Sleep. (work, school, sleep)

Ah-ah, uh-huh, yeah

Verse

Alarm like a gun, morning pours in coffee and light

Zip my jacket, tie my shoes to another fight

Lecture halls and sticky notes, deadlines in my veins

Texting ghosts of free time, drowning in my plans (uh)

Two trains, one calendar, I'm counting intersections

Professor says "stay sharp" — I swallow my objections

Lunch is a thought, money's a moth, bills buzzing at the door

I trade my Saturday for progress, fold my youth into more

Pre-chorus

Hands on the clock keep running (keep running), feet in the hallway stuck

I memorize the route between the hustle and the bus (and the bus)

Every small victory is currency that I tuck

But I dream in short naps, stolen minutes, a hush

Chorus

Work, school, sleep — work, school, sleep

Work, school, sleep — work, school, sleep

Oh-oh, oh-oh, pushing 'til the lights go out (yeah)

Work, school, sleep — work, school, sleep

Verse

Night shift of textbooks, my desk a quiet battlefield

Emails like summer rain, I fold the map and what I feel

Study lamp haloed in the dust, I trace the same three words

I bargain with tomorrow, trading time like borrowed verbs (uh-huh)

We count by achievements, not by the songs we used to know

I rehearse my better self in mirrors of fluorescent glow

Friends on the other side of sleep, laughing in a different street

I press my face to the window glass, memorize the inside beat

Bridge

There’s a rhythm to the grind, a heartbeat in the grey (beat, beat)

I sing it soft to keep from losing what I save (keep it, save)

If rest is a secret, we hold it like a key (hold it, hold it)

Between the work and school and sleep, we learn to be free (learn to be, be)

Chorus

Work, school, sleep — work, school, sleep

Work, school, sleep — work, school, sleep

Oh-oh, oh-oh, pushing 'til the lights go out (come on)

Work, school, sleep — work, school, sleep

Outro

Work. School. Sleep. (work, school, sleep)

Work. School. Sleep. (work, school, sleep)

Ah — fade, fade, fade...