Spinning Plates

Push the button on the alarm
Give me just another five
To muster up enough ambition
To get out of bed this time
Standing up
Taking on the mantle of provider and then
I feel the weight of the world being placed
On my shoulders again
All the commitments and obligations
Well, they are what they are
And the money for any number of other things
Will only go so far
So everything is up in the air
Balanced centrifugally while it waits
As I shift from one to another
Making adjustments
Spinning plates

Hurry here and hurry there
And I hate to cut in that line
But I do what I can do to cut corners
Only to save a little time
Running from place to place
A little late wherever I go
Always a little out of it
With answers that I don't know
Another day brings new obligations
Hard to keep up with demand
Especially when I never tell em no
Or that I'm bluffing with an empty hand
But I keep on going with unviable goals and
Unrealistic dates
As things teeter oh-so precariously
Spinning plates

So many promises and pledges
Vowed to friends and family ties
Assurances made with hollow words
Can be very much like lies
And as I obligate myself
Giving guarantees that I can hardly keep
Love has a way of justifying
Me getting
In way too deep
So many irons in the fire
Doing everything under the sun
A little piece here, a little work there
Hard to get any one thing done
But I keep on going
Circling the room
Balanced on roller skates
Going from here to there
Juggled balls
Spinning plates