Summary
How to Waste Your Time is Trista Rhodes’ no-nonsense list of life’s biggest thieves — the people, habits, and jobs that drain you dry if you let them. Equal parts cautionary tale and personal turning point, it names the ways we give away our days without noticing, until the years blur together. By the final verse, it’s not just a warning — it’s a declaration to walk out that “nowhere door” and start spending time like it matters.
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Lyrics
How to Waste Your Time
by Trista Rhodes
[Verse 1]
Call someone who don’t call back
Chase a heart that’s off its track
Sit in silence next to noise
Let ‘em treat your pain like toys
[Verse 2]
Work a job that drains your soul
Clockin’ in but never whole
Talk to folks who never hear
Spend your gold on someone’s beer
[Chorus]
That’s how you waste your time
Give it out like borrowed dimes
Let the world just take and take
Till you forget what you could make
Yeah, that’s how you lose your shine
Livin’ like your life ain’t mine
[Verse 3]
Scroll a screen for hours on end
Text a ghost who won’t pretend
Keep your fire under glass
Smile polite while good things pass
[Bridge]
And you’ll wake up some old day
Wonderin’ why you feel this way
Empty hands and no one left
Just the echoes of what you let
[Final Chorus]
That’s how you waste your time
Let the days blur into lines
Be the one who always bends
Chasin’ love that just pretends
Yeah, that’s how the years slip by
And you forget that you could fly
[Outro]
So I won’t waste mine anymore
I’m walking out that nowhere door
This song was inspired by a post from Ken's Life blog. You can read the original here:
→ Read the blog post: "How to waste your time"Links
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