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There are sixteen messages on my answering machine Human interaction, you know I try not to do that anymore Although I'm not trying much of anything lately I'm not sure there's anything left to try Everything I'm feeling has already been felt Everyone I love has already been loved more I don't know how to love someone anymore I don't even know how to be someone anymore People make my sense of self shake People made my sense of self in the first place There are splinters of humans in my consciousness But mostly it's just me in here And it's actually none of them on my message machine Just a bunch of telemarketers Selling me their souls for nineteen ninety nine I forgot how silky apathy can be Constricted around my waist And laced up in the back of my mind Always there, always far away Until everyone's out of sight
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 12:22 PM UTC
June 16, 2014 -- Distant
There are sixteen messages on my answering machine Human interaction, you know I try not to do that anymore Although I'm not trying much of anything lately I'm not sure there's anything left to try Everything I'm feeling has already been felt Everyone I love has already been loved more I don't know how to love someone anymore I don't even know how to be someone anymore People make my sense of self shake People made my sense of self in the first place There are splinters of humans in my consciousness But mostly it's just me in here And it's actually none of them on my message machine Just a bunch of telemarketers Selling me their souls for nineteen ninety nine I forgot how silky apathy can be Constricted around my waist And laced up in the back of my mind Always there, always far away Until everyone's out of sight
kstenlowe
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 12:22 PM UTC
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