Might be cumulative
Might be the time of day
Sodium or caffeine intake
what have you read? if i may

ask: these questions of yourself
what purpose does they serve?
Aside from dampening the mood
And making you feel worse

apartment shopping online
for about the 8 or 9th time
checkboxing bathrooms and avoiding neighborhoods

calling or email works best
reply immediate with bad
news like not there or no pets
Although the

listing said nothing to that effect
And now i’m clenching my jaw

We’ll be out of the van by the first of the month
If this luck continues along

Good god, have i become so tightly wound
i can’t stop it anymore
And in the quiet when there's no one else around
how long do i let it go for?

Interestingly enough, we
Eventually found residence
It has two, count ‘em two, bathrooms
One for each of us
There’s room for the dog to run and everything
it took a little less than a week of looking, too

But where does my brain wander, where does it party?
What if I hadn’t put in the work?
What’ll we do next year? And the year after that?
Mind you, we haven’t moved out or in yet

Good god, have i become so tightly wound
i can’t stop it anymore
And in the quiet when there's no one else around
how long do i let it go for?

Combustion loop repeating
It doesn’t have to be that hard
What’ll be top of mind come winter
If you make it through the fall?
For those in back, repeat it
It doesn’t have to be that hard
You’ve drawn yourself a circle.
It doesn’t have to be that
It doesn’t have to be that
It doesn’t have to be that hard

Good god, have i become so tightly wound
i can’t stop it anymore
And in the quiet when there's no one else around
how long do i let it go for?

Good god, have i become so tightly wound
i can’t stop it anymore
And in the quiet when there's no one else around
how long do i let it go for?

Good god, have i become so tightly wound
i can’t stop it anymore
And in the quiet when there's no one else around
how long do i let it go for?