A heavy, blues anthem centered on Grief doesn't respect your calendar. It shows up in the middle of meetings, at the.
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Grief doesn't respect your calendar. It shows up in the middle of meetings, at the store, driving home. Carrying loss while maintaining the appearance that everything is fine.
This track comes from leadership earned through service, failures, and rebuilding — the long game of legacy. It tackles Grief doesn't respect your calendar. It shows up in the middle of meetings, at the store, driving home. Carrying loss while maintaining the appearance that everything is fine.. The lyrics get specific — "And the whole composure crumbled like I'd never built a floor" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The blues production matches the energy of the confession. It hits heavy and raw, in that order. Every personal track in the catalogue comes from a real moment, a real feeling, a real person. This one is no exception.
[verse 1]
I was fine in the morning, made the coffee, tied the shoes
Opened up the laptop, checked the metrics, read the news
Then a song came on the radio, just three notes, maybe four
And the whole composure crumbled like I'd never built a floor
Beneath my feet, beneath the man who runs a company
The CEO just disappeared and all that's left is me
Sitting in the parking lot before the nine AM
Gripping on the steering wheel and crying once again
[chorus]
Grief don't clock out, grief don't take a day
Grief shows up at board meetings and has too much to say
Grief don't care about your title or your calendar full
Grief just sits beside you and it pulls, and pulls, and pulls
And you smile through the presentation, shake the hands on time
But grief don't clock out, grief just stays inside
[verse 2]
I've lost people, lost connections, lost the versions of myself
That I stored in other people like some books upon a shelf
And when they left, they took the chapters that I can't rewrite alone
And the weight of all those stories is the heaviest thing I've known
Heavier than the Navy pack, heavier than the code
Heavier than the expectations piling on this road
Because you can put a backpack down, you can close the screen
But you can't set down the missing of the people in between
[chorus]
Grief don't clock out, grief don't take a day
Grief shows up at board meetings and has too much to say
Grief don't care about your title or your calendar full
Grief just sits beside you and it pulls, and pulls, and pulls
[bridge]
And I wish someone had told me that the weight of grief
Doesn't lighter with success, doesn't lighter with belief
It just changes shape, it morphs, it hides inside the grind
And then it taps you on the shoulder when you're doing fine
Hey, remember me? Remember what you lost?
Yeah, I know you're busy but I need to talk
[verse 3]
So I let it talk, right here in the car, before I go inside
I give the grief its moment, give the tears their ride
Then I wipe my face and straighten up and walk through the door
Carrying the weight that no one else can see me carry anymore
[outro]
Grief don't clock out
But neither do I
And somehow we coexist
Somehow we survive