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They don't know what I've been thinking\r
\nOverflowing cup I'm drinking\r
\nSuperdrug that I've been taking\r
\nTwisting all my thoughts\r
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Hearing but not listening\r
\nOpen eyes but they're not seeing\r
\nOpen minds shut tight no blinking\r
\nNew thoughts echoing from old\r
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Silly child what are you saying\r
\nSilly brain just cool the blood\r
\nGot no need to blow things open\r
\nGot no need to slow the flood\r
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Older world is best today\r
\nThere's no other anyway\r
\nNothing new is happening\r
\nSo what is there to change?\r
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They don't know what I've been thinking\r
\nOverflowing cup I'm drinking\r
\nSuperdrug that I've been taking\r
\nTwisting all my thoughts\r
\n

Little prison made of kid gloves\r
\nKept a child by too much love\r
\nLittle darling please don't shove\r
\nNothing out there anyway\r
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Don't get big that's problematic\r
\nKeep your brain on automatic\r
\nWhy must you be so erratic?\r
\nYou're not the one we used to love\r
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Feel the guilt for being different\r
\nFeel the pain of separate living\r
\nDon't let on your real intent\r
\nCrush the urge of constant giving\r
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They don't know what I've been thinking\r
\nOverflowing cup I'm drinking\r
\nSuperdrug that I've been taking\r
\nTwisting all my thoughts\r
\n

Life's a drug and it's addictive\r
\nIt's not the same for everyone\r
\nSome it takes them high and different\r
\nWho cares what happens to the others?\r
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Posts tagged “growing up”