Bonus Content: Break the Wheel

A song about breaking cycles. CW: Inherited Trauma

© Jason Phelps 2019.

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Lyrics
The wheel It turns It brings it all around And when you’re starting out Then it will crush you to the ground

The wheel It turns When you come out of the mud You rise up to the top of it But you can’t escape the rut

Ten thousand years ago there was some prick who set it off Who started the wheel turning Dragged us all into its trough Whether blows to break your bones Or words your soul to cut The pain you feel is pressed to the wheel And you can’t escape the rut

No one ever said it should be easy Don’t you know, kid, life just isn't fair If you want to stand up tall You've got to make someone else small Or you're gonna have to face all your despair

And there’s always hopes to trample Fears to mock And dreams to steal Do what I do and you'll end up Right on top of that old wheel Everything that you've received You’ll pay it back with dividends And the pain will drive the wheel And the cycle never ends

The wheel (The wheel) It turns (It turns) From parent down to child From master to apprentice There’s a cruelty gone wild

The wheel (The wheel) It turns (It turns) From rage and fear its cut The ones who pushed or ones who But they can't escape the rut

No ones saying that it will be easy No one ever said that it was fair When you look into their gaze Recall you once stood in their place And the wheel will doom them to the same despair

You’ll never get back everything The wheel took from you But crushing or depriving them Will only doom them too Are we only pushing at the wheel Cause we know nothing else Someone has to break it And if not us then who else

Break the wheel Be brave There’s no one else who can save us

Break the wheel Let it seize It's the only way we’ll find peace

You don’t have to forgive I won’t ask you to forget We won’t pretend it didn’t happen There’ll always be regrets

Be kind And stop the wheel Be the change you want to see And the ones who follow after us We’ll show how to be free