Just begin - KMurdock Music Group
I got 17 tabs open
None of them the thing I need
Got a talent for adjacent work
Calling it productive make-believe
And I swear I'm gonna do it just not this next second
Been saying that since Monday now it's Saturday
I reckon there's a version of this done already living in my head
Full of details I imagine while I scroll my phone in bed
Funny thing about potential it's so comfortable to hold
Never has to meet reality, never has to get old
So I polish up the concept, rearrange it one more time
Convince myself that preparation isn't just a pantomime
But my hands know what they're doing if I let them off the leash
All this thinking's just my brain trying to keep the doing out of reach
Three more minutes turns to three more days
I'm fluent in the art of the delay
But honestly
I don't know why I make it such a whole production
When it's really just a couple minutes
Then it's done
And I've been standing at the edge like there's a cliff beneath my feet
When it's just a step, a regular step, nothing neat
So I'm moving before the hesitation kicks back in
Cause the only thing I'm racing is the version that won't begin
Lot of planning for the planning of the plans I'm gonna plan
Color coded tabs and everything
I'm such a dedicated fan
Of the ritual of readiness, the ceremony of the prep
Meanwhile the actual task is watching like y'all done yet
And I tell myself I'm building laying ground with being smart
But the house has got no walls, just a really detailed chart
Of where the walls could go eventually when conditions align
When Mercury's out of retrograde and all the planets look fine
Now I'm playing but for real though I perfected this routine
Getting ready to get ready most productive I've ever been
At doing absolutely nothing dressed up like it's something more
While the thing itself just sits there waiting patient by the door
And tomorrow I'll feel different that's the lie I love the most
I'll be motivated then, not today, I'll be engrossed
But honestly
I don't know why I make it such a whole production
When it's really just a couple minutes
Then it's done
And I've been standing at the edge like there's a cliff beneath my feet
When it's just a step, a regular step, nothing neat
So I'm moving before the hesitation kicks back in
Cause the only thing I'm racing is the version that won't begin
Did it at 2:00 AM, couldn't tell you why that worked
Guess my brain got tired of fighting, let the impulse go berserk
And the thing exists now sitting there all lord and airy
Took 4 minutes, maybe 5
All that, oh the unnecessary
Unnecessary
I don't know why I make it such a whole production
When it's really just a couple minutes
Then it's done
And I've been standing at the edge like there's a cliff beneath my feet
When it's just a step, nothing underneath
So I'm moving before the hesitation kicks back in
Cause the only thing I'm racing is the version that won't begin
Just begin
Just a step
Yeah