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Life is, to a joyous cynic

A peep show with your eyes closed

A fishbowl in a snow globe

the future is a nursing home

and Superman's on methadone

It's an issue with the heating

a daydream in a meeting

where the coffee's always scalding

and when you leave you're undecided

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