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Oct 2015
I'm the reason you lay wake at night
The reason you shake
The reason you feel like a wind up toy that no one with let go
Tense
Tight
They don't know us
They don't know I keep you up all night saying you should worry
Hush
It won't be ok
Hush my baby
They don't think I'm worthy enough to be a burden
But they don't get me
They don't get us
What I am to you
I make you different
And you know you can't get rid of me
Take all the pills you want
Go ahead
Try it
I'm sticking to you like a magnet
I will always find my way back
And they dare call us fake
They say I'm an excuse
I'm a fashion trend
The pills don't numb the pain
They don't helpΒ Β 
It's easy
just relax
Yeah we can't
WE are one
If I shake
You do
If you tense
I do
And maybe if it does help us calm down
I always come back
Ready to tell you everything can go wrong
Everything will go wrong
I have a name
That's a new fashion statement
I'm not a fancy pair of earrings
I'm a snake
Quite but ever so poisonous
My name is anxiety
I have power
I can drive someone mad
They all want to get rid of me
With pills
With anything
Because they don't approve of us
But my love for you is poison
So hush my child
And try to sleep
Delia Smith
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