From the album Trying Times
This is about someone who has spent years blaming their environment for their own emotional paralysis. Blake catches himself mid-excuse and realizes the only thing he has been avoiding is the person who makes time feel real instead of wasted.
It's the enemy, the endless wheel / It got the best of me, that's the way it feels
Blake names something but refuses to say what. The vagueness is the point. When you are stuck, everything blurs into one faceless thing grinding you down.
Don't get my hopes up / 'Cause I'd never recover
He warns them off while also admitting he loves them. The contradiction is the entire relationship. He knows he is too fragile to survive being let down again.
Days go by and it's not wasted time / When you're with the one
The shift from 'nothing gets done' to 'not wasted time' is the whole revelation. Productivity culture says time without output is lost. Blake argues love redefines what counts.
Oh, what have I been chasing / When I could have been chasing you?
He finally admits he has been running toward the wrong things. The repetition makes it sound like he is trying to convince himself. Maybe he still is not sure.
And nothing gets done
Eight times. The line used to sound like failure. Now it sounds like peace. Nothing gets done because nothing needs to.
Blake has written a lot about loneliness, but this is one of his clearest songs about choosing not to be lonely anymore. The repeated 'nothing gets done' stops sounding like a problem and starts sounding like the whole point.