Five More Minutes

[Intro] Five more minutes… That’s what they said thirty minutes ago [Verse 1] Clock on the wall got a cruel little grin Every time I look it barely moved again Steel door rattles, scanner screams Living inside fluorescent dreams Everybody dragging like ghosts in boots Running on caffeine and bad fast food Somebody mutters, “We almost done” Nobody believes it [Pre-Chorus] Second hand crawling like it’s stuck in mud And my brain checked out around lunchtime, bud [Chorus] Five more minutes That’s the lie we live in Five more minutes Till freedom starts kicking One last pallet, one last load One last breakdown before we go Yeah the whole night feels never-ending Inside these five more minutes [Verse 2] Supervisor standing with the famous phrase “Need a little extra help today” Whole crew sighs in perfect sync Like a tired machine on the edge of the brink Vending machine coffee burns my tongue Parking lot moon looks twice as fun And every beep from a backing truck Feels personal now [Pre-Chorus] Somewhere out there my couch exists And I’m spiritually already sitting in it [Chorus] Five more minutes That’s what they keep saying Five more minutes While my sanity’s fading One more cleanup, one more sweep One more reason I need sleep Yeah the whole night feels never-ending Inside these five more minutes [Bridge] Then suddenly somebody kills the line Whole room freezes for a moment in time Silence falls like holy rain And everybody wakes up again Keys jingle… radios die… People smiling with half-closed eyes Like survivors seeing land After drifting too long [Final Chorus] No more minutes We finally made it No more minutes Lord we escaped it Parking lot air never smelled so sweet Freedom echoing under tired feet Yeah the whole hard night disappeared After those five more minutes [Outro] Clock out beep… Best sound ever made…