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Blink


Taking my soul as your’s, without Began when I was just a lout Cute a happy and ineptitude Didn’t know no rude or crude One-track bus it takes you on Drags you up at the break of dawn Locked down in a room for 12 long years But you’ve not to fear Bright futures ahead of you! 17, still young and strong Bright tears in the blinding sun Reflect wide eyes They beheaded you Don’t blink, it’s not too long They sucked you in you never knew One way road Since five years old Blue for boys, pink for girls Red for sluts Wealth with pearls Five years old you’re on the bus Happy, giggling, smiling with trust Turn around you’re 21 Youth is over now it’s done A child with debt Just like everyone What happened? You fell asleep on the bus Gallavanting in illusions with everyone else You must Have made a mistake This isn’t you Tell me it’s not true From child to senior You’re in a rush Apathetic, rude Girls make you blush But you’re timid and shy and just don’t care So you followed the system without a hush Without a breath you’re shoved into college Where there’s plenty a breadth of hope and knowledge Though you really go since everyone else Shoved advice Beetle and crabs and insects like lice Corruption down your throat Trapped in a vice Well listen to me kid You messed up bad Don’t blink and don’t cheer Right now is your yesteryear Cause even I am trapped in this vicious turn Like a Salem witch about to burn There’s no oneway to live in life Heck, you can end it now Free with a slice There’s a system in place with roles and roads A train with hundreds, thousands of toads Croak and moan and at life bemoan Never see never know It’s sloth that they do atone They force you through a system of checks Must be this Must be that Bills to pay the last stop’s next So before your are trapped In societies will With that next text to fill Remember don’t blink Don’t relinquish your will Remember, apathy’s pathetic So don’t be apathetic If so, you can end it now, Don’t be forced like me like everyone else To be forced to college To bend and cow Take a breath and think, that’s knowledge Don’t let yourself go To be rolled and smoked Cause it’s cold when for twenty years you’ve been all stoked But you’re 21 With bills to pay Debt to begin and debt to end It’s the rope that made the willow bend You’ve ego and will to lead the way Seduction by complacence and not by fae So, don’t blink and don’t cheer Right now is yesteryear Cause even I am trapped in this vicious turn A Salem witch about to burn Remember, there’s no one way to live in life So don’t be lazy Heck, end it now Here’s the knife
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kodama
I personally have felt the tug and pull of society lately. About to graduate high school, I have the ability to commit ties anywhere. I really don't feel good about the college I deposited to and I'm considering taking a year off. My profession will be music composition so, as it is a very individualized education, I really don't need classes right off the bat. I need to produce and learn by doing. There are so many angles of advice it just builds unnecessary tension to the issue. So, basically, I'm the stereotypical angsting teenager who just has a lot of feelings and concerns which every rational minded person should have.

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