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You paint me in the wrong colours and hold your art up to my face, claiming it's a mirror. And you're deaf to my silent protests; you look admiringly at your work and tell me "I know you"- you don't. We walk together down the corridor and I don't know what you're seeing but it sure as hell isn't me. You smile, smug like a cat, thinking that you've got me. (You haven't). And you think you know what makes me tick but you're forever trying to wind me up with the wrong key, and wondering why sometimes (when you look, when you really look) the hour hand's pointing out thirteen.
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 5:55 PM UTC
Your Confident Assumptions (Are All Wrong)
You paint me in the wrong colours and hold your art up to my face, claiming it's a mirror. And you're deaf to my silent protests; you look admiringly at your work and tell me "I know you"- you don't. We walk together down the corridor and I don't know what you're seeing but it sure as hell isn't me. You smile, smug like a cat, thinking that you've got me. (You haven't). And you think you know what makes me tick but you're forever trying to wind me up with the wrong key, and wondering why sometimes (when you look, when you really look) the hour hand's pointing out thirteen.
i'm trying really hard to like you, you know
terra-nova
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 5:55 PM UTC
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