| One day you opened up your eyes inside of you
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| Inside a world inside a universe you didn’t get to choose
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| You didn’t get to pick the rules or pick the past or set the pace
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| Or cast the cast and crew you didn’t get to pick your starting place
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| And though it was a race you didn’t understand
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| You simply lined up on the blocks and when the pistol popped you ran
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| And when you tripped and dropped you picked yourself up off the ground
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| And picked your scabs you knew you had to pick a plan to end what you began
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| As you got older there were days of cold surrender
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| Days of shrugged whatever’s folded in with days of shocking splendor
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| But as time advanced the lovely days were covered up from view
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| By an advancing melancholy haze that hovered near the dew
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| Yet there were moments
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| There were these pure arresting moments when you stepped outside your head
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| Outside your pain outside control, outside the bullshit, out of body,
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| out of rage
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| Outside the need to get it, get it, you will never get it, that’s okay
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| Have you felt a little off today
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| Had a lot to say
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| But wound up talking to yourself?
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| I’ve been huntin' for a kindly ear
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| But couldn’t find one near
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| And wound up talking to myself
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| Had a little spot where you been going through a lot
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| Wanna shove it to the bottom, but a trouble gonna bubble to the top
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| Then the bubble gonna pop and the hustle never ever gonna stop
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| Cause you get up in the morning get ahead then get to bed and then you do it
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| all again until the moment that you drop
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| You need a plot
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| What you wanna witness with this life you got
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| You kicked and fought tryna get up in your skin and pick this lock
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| That ticking clock lets you know that bitch you got these situations with you
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| Issues someone fit to quick should sit you should down to talk
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| Ever wonder who’s the crazy one, people walking to work as if nothing is off
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| But if a person really got it they would be cracking a bottle on somebody’s
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| head and looting from shops
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| Are there times you’re alone now when nobody’s home but you walk around
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| muttering under your breath
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| Second guess shit saying goddammit goddammit goddammit just whispering soft
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| Do you ever get lost, deep in your thoughts, tripping when you think about the
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| cost of seeing this through
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| When you tie your stomach into knots that you don’t know how to undo
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| But do you ever have another moment after that, when you can see
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| There’s no one way this has to be?
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| Or maybe that’s just me
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| Have you felt a little off today
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| Had a lot to say
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| But wound up talking to yourself?
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| I’ve been huntin' for a kindly ear
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| But couldn’t find one near
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| And wound up talking to myself
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| How you feeling today?.. |