Life before the Covid Pandemic was a busy machine and now, after 16 months of high-pressure living, things have only got worse for some.

I know what that pressure is.

In my late teens and early 20’s I burnt out…then dropped out…

Luckily for me, I found solid ground again, but to this day, when life starts winding up too tightly, this body of mine is very quick to let me know it’s time to slow down.

But what I see around me, people hurting themselves without knowing it, realizing when it’s too late then suffering enormously….is painful.

A song won’t fix that for anyone, but sometimes, to know that you’re seen, that what is happening to you is understood by others, is a valuable thing.

So, here’s Enough.

It was written in February of 2021 and worked up and filmed at the end of the Northern academic year.

I give it with love and in the hope that people feel heard, seen and valued.

Kylie

Enough

Kylie van Dam

2021

Don’t keep pushing against the walls that surround you.

You’re brain and body can’t take the strain.

Those walls won’t crumble any slower, if you just take a moment.

They won’t creep in any closer.

Free your shoulders from the pain of slamming walls each and every day.

Though the battle isn’t fiction, be aware of an addiction

To fight.

‘Cause it’ll hurt you.

It’ll hurt you.

It’ll hurt you.

And I don’t want it to.

‘Cause the normal that was new,

Isn’t new anymore,

It’s just ‘the normal’.

And the crisis point of view,

From deep behind the eyes

Is just gonna tear you in two and you’ll

Sit down and cry.

You’ve done enough for today.

It’s time to close the door and walk away.

Please don’t break yourself for perfection,

It’s just a goal, just a direction.

Give tomorrow the chance to be another day.

‘Cause it’ll hurt you.

It’ll hurt you.

It’ll hurt you.

And I don’t want it to.

It’ll hurt you.

It’ll hurt you.

It’ll hurt you.

And I don’t want it to.

‘Cause it’ll hurt you.

And I don’t want it to.