Spinning Plates Lyrics

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