Korpenning - No Shortcuts // from the album Convertino

From the album Convertino (2022) - download at korpenning.bandcamp.com.
This song is about being too hard on yourself for not always working hard
Lyrics:
No shortcuts, win it with your own breath
Walk like you you could play dot-to-dot with your footsteps
So you can say everything today can be traced back
To the morning you woke and your boots were laced up
Door slam when you hook a plan, make it nature
And learn how to read clock hands like scripture
Cos if time is left to slide with no fetters
You'll start to spiral down and you'll deserve no matter
Instinct is a prompt in the wings waiting for you
A whisper in the ear of the skipping-heart actor
But who is that figure when your breath draws tight
A brother or a ticket to a sleepless night?
And where is that place that stage-door car careens to
Detours turn habit til the detours become you
Til the blank canvas lingers and it starts to stare back
But don't the view look different down an unwalked track
With no shortcuts through the night
No shortcuts through the day
No shortcuts to the heart of your heart
No shortcuts and you'll never walk in vain
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Edited by Korpenning from public domain footage and films from the Internet Archive, archive.org
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