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Catastrophizing

from In Time by Mitch Linker

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“'Catastrophizing' is a very timely commentary on contemporary life, as lines like 'I’m rehearsing for the worst, yeah, I’m catastrophizing”' speak to the trembling anxiety in all of us right about now."
Americana Highways
americanahighways.org/2022/04/14/review-mitch-linker-in-time/

"Linker unspools a dizzying string of rhymes on the chorus to album opener “Catastrophizing,” about the all-too-common tendency our brains have to spin out doomsday romance scenarios. He’s accompanied by bold backing vocals and a strong blend of electric guitars and keyboards."
Listen, Dammit
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By the evening I’m OK, it fades throughout the day, when nothing’s lost or thrown away
When I wake up I reset, dream up a new threat, you don’t know how bad it all can get

Yeah, most of the time it all works out OK
Ahead of time it never looks that way

I’m rehearsing for the worst yeah I’m catastrophizing
I’ll be stressing and obsessing over analyzing
It’ll all fall through

I’m in a hurry to go worry I’m catastrophizing
I’m getting manic close to panic over analyzing
This must be hard for you

It’s nothing rational, it’s so nonsensical, it’s mostly indefensible
Tell my hands that as they shake, tell my chest that as it aches, it’s all too much for me to take

Imagination it does me a disservice
Bad fantasies oh they make me nervous

I’m rehearsing for the worst yeah I’m catastrophizing
I’ll be stressing and obsessing over analyzing
It’ll all fall through

I’m in a hurry to go worry I’m catastrophizing
I’m getting manic close to panic over analyzing
This can’t be fun for you

All I ever want to do is make things right
All I ever want to do is make things good
All I want to do is please everyone
All I want to do is never be wrong
All I want to do is control the world

Yeah, most of the time it all works out OK
Except when it doesn’t, I’m just saying

I invent all this dissent ‘cause I’m catastrophizing
I’m second guessing I’m regressing over analyzing
It’ll all fall through

I’m in a hurry to go worry I’m catastrophizing
I’m getting manic close to panic over analyzing
This can’t be fun for you

All I ever want to do is make things right
All I ever want to do is make things good
All I want to do is please everyone
All I want to do is never be wrong
All I want to do is control the world

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from In Time, released April 8, 2022

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After a 13 year hiatus from music and the release of my last solo album, it's good to be recording music again.

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