Drafts and Doldrums - Axioms of Mediocrity

[04:10.0]In the grip of empty pages
[04:10.0]The ink is dry
[04:10.0]Pens scratch out
[04:10.0]A tale where ambitions lie
[04:10.0]Clocks tick on in mocking tones
[04:10.0]Empty echoes fill my bones
[04:10.0]Chained to desks in silent rows
[04:10.0]Where the stifled spirit goes
[04:10.0]Caught in the drafts and the doldrums
[04:10.0]Fighting through the fog and the fears
[04:10.0]Words weigh heavy on the night's hum
[04:10.0]Hopes spin idle in forgotten wheels
[04:10.0]Walls close in with each critique
[04:10.0]And each command
[04:10.0]Ideas die unborn
[04:10.0]In the barren no-man's land
[04:10.0]Feedback loops spin minds
[04:10.0]Caught in a tight vise
[04:10.0]Promises break like glass
[04:10.0]Dreams deferred, paying the price
[04:10.0]Spinning wheels, burning out
[04:10.0]Voices raise, begin to doubt
[04:10.0]Break the cycle, crack the code
[04:10.0]Burst the bounds, hit the road
[04:10.0]Caught in the drafts and the doldrums
[04:10.0]Fighting through the fog and the fears
[04:10.0]Words weigh heavy on the night's hum
[04:10.0]Hopes spin idle in forgotten wheels
[04:10.0]Shadowed halls echo
[04:10.0]With the whispers of the lost
[04:10.0]Dreams calcify in corners
[04:10.0]Frosted with the cost
[04:10.0]Silent sentinels stand guard
[04:10.0]Over ideas once free
[04:10.0]Locked away in ivory towers
[04:10.0]Thrown away the key
[04:10.0]Spinning wheels, burning out
[04:10.0]Voices raise, begin to doubt
[04:10.0]Break the cycle, crack the code
[04:10.0]Burst the bounds, hit the road
[04:10.0]Caught in the drafts and the doldrums
[04:10.0]Fighting through the fog and the fears
[04:10.0]Words weigh heavy on the night's hum
[04:10.0]Hopes spin idle in forgotten wheels
[04:10.0]In the drafts and the doldrums
[04:10.0]Fighting through the fog and the fears
[04:10.0]Words weigh heavy on the night's hum
[04:10.0]Hopes spin idle in forgotten wheels
[04:10.0]Caught in the drafts and the doldrums
[04:10.0]Fighting through the fog and the fears
[04:10.0]Words weigh heavy on the night's hum
[04:10.0]Hopes spin idle in forgotten wheels