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Uneven (I'm Not Done)
2025-12-27
A year-end reflection set in the quiet seconds before midnight—taking stock of what broke, what lingered, and what never fully resolved. It’s about feeling unfinished but choosing motion anyway: accepting the uneven parts, finding a crack of light, and stepping into the next year determined to make it mean something.
Uneven (I'm Not Done)
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// Lyrics
Verse 1
- Calendar curled at the edges
- Ink fading where I pressed too hard
- Every month felt borrowed
- Every promise left half-charged
- I learned how quiet can shout
- How staying feels like leaving
- I kept score in my chest
- Of every almost, every reason
Pre-Chorus
- The clock doesn’t ask permission
- It just keeps leaning forward
- I tried to slow my breathing
- While the future cleared its throat
Chorus
- I’m not done, I’m just uneven
- Still standing in the afterglow
- Some years take more than they give us
- Some years teach us how to let go
- If this is what remains of me
- It’s enough to start again
- I’m not done, I’m just uneven
- Watching midnight bend
Verse 2
- Photographs with missing context
- Smiles that didn’t make the cut
- I kept the lights on longer
- Like that would be enough
- There were nights I felt replaceable
- Days I felt too loud
- But I’m still here counting seconds
- Like they might count me out
Pre-Chorus
- Every ending feels dramatic
- When you’re inside the frame
- But distance turns the damage
- Into something you can name
Chorus
- I’m not done, I’m just uneven
- Still standing in the afterglow
- Some years take more than they give us
- Some years teach us how to let go
- If this is what remains of me
- It’s enough to start again
- I’m not done, I’m just uneven
- Watching midnight bend
Bridge
- I don’t need a clean confession
- Or a perfect rewrite
- Just a crack in the dark
- Where the future leaks light
- I don’t need to be fearless
- I can move while I’m afraid
- Let the old year close the door
- I’ll stand in the doorway
Chorus
- I’m not done, I’m just uneven
- Still breathing in the glow
- Some years leave us unfinished
- So we know where to go
- If this is what remains of me
- I can work with this
- I’m not done, I’m just uneven
- Still believing in the shift
Outro
- The numbers change quietly
- Like they don’t want credit
- I take one step forward
- And decide to let it mean something
I'm not done, I'm just uneven Still standing in the afterglow