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lives on the line
03:39
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The world went mad first
I found my head in screens, backlit, back arched
Watching my friends turn to adverts
All these lives on charge, but never in charge
In a forest of smiles, I fake it
Wearing faded Reeboks like damaged packaging
Tired of being the not okay kid
But I'm the same adult, not managing
I'm tryna go through the motions
But I'm flowing through treacle
I show no commotion
So I don't see no equals
I'm tryna take it all to task
But it's a brick wall
Imma fake it to the last
Even if the shit is lethal
Tryna go through the motions
But I'm flowing through treacle
I show no commotion
So I don't see no equals
I'm tryna take it all to task
But it's a brick wall
And the world flows past the glass
It's a new kind of lonely
I see myself in endless faces
The truth of my mind is locked here only
Trying to find myself in drowned places
Behind dulled eyes
I know I could find minds
That align with mine
Living our lives on the line
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snowdrift
03:26
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You'll be okay
We all fall down sometimes
We're all fragile but actually
In your smile beauty lies
Intricate you
Breakable you and I
But we're all just trying
Underneath the breaking sky
I'll catch you when you fall fast through night
Warm hands outstretched, holding your thoughts tight
I know it's hard to be drifting, to know nothing's sure
'Cept that you're not gonna stumble upon a miracle cure
How d'you treat yourself right when your head's in flight?
I stretch fingers praying for insight
Cause honestly, I'm drifting too
I think we're all drifting through
I thought I knew all of you, I'm so full of shit I'm empty
I see blurred figures where I saw two twenties
I see plenty aphorisms and cognitive dissonance
But who listens out for the listeners? It's insidious
(Tell me why) I try when I know I'll just disappoint
(Tell me why) I push myself past the breaking point
(Tell me why) I make myself smile for cameras
(Tell me why) I love like the snow loves travellers
What if I just spent more time on you? Lied to you?
Tried to hide the truth? Signed off the work I had to do?
You'd see right through
You know I'm an addict, you know that I panic
Though I know the day's wasted if it's not manic
Yours and mine are violent minds, and that's fine
Maybe it's a sign of the times
We've all got pressures
But if you ever need me, message
If I don't get it, I'll always try to stop you stressing
Maybe if we're lucky we'll forget it
Force the globe to be snowflake-fretted
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fine like this
03:17
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You should understand
I don't care what I find inside my mind
Turned my head to my home in time
It wasn't planned
Feeling this incomplete, and all these dirty sheets
Show what I'll be
How much time has passed?
You've been so close to me for eternities
The cracked wall supporting me
We'll both outlast
There's no need to pretend, though you're hell sent
You're with me until the end
But you don't make me brittle, ever since I was little
I've been tryna find my middle through sides of a mind like this
An evolving existence, hard to persist with this resistance
Living off the insistence that I can be fine like this
I'm trying to be better
Tryna fuck with with all the pressure
I won't be the same girl from my childhood
I finally feel like a real person
Even when my mind worsens
I know I can be good
Would you be okay
If you knew all my thoughts, the ups, the flaws?
You don't have to stay, it's your choice
I'll be there always
I'll learn to tread my lines, know when I'm fine
I've got yours if you've got mine
I live my life in fragments, temporary attachments
But I'm sick of detachment, didn't think we'd decline like this
Taking it moment to moment, when I'm my own opponent
I know I can show it to you, I'll be fine like this
I'm trying to be better
Tryna fuck with with all the pressure
I won't be the same girl from my childhood
I finally feel like a real person
Even when my mind worsens
I know I can be good
I know I can be good
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