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Hide my cruel words under a cough

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Spray enough perfume to hide the water being off

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Never participate so they won’t ask me to read out loud

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Binge and purge to lose another pound

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Do just enough work to pass the class

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Stay a little longer because going home is like walking on glass

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Avoid him so the stealing on my innocence I'll forget

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Pay for groceries with another bet

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Protect myself by once again changing my route

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Can’t apply to college so mom and dad won't be found out

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Sit with the druggies because it’s better than sitting alone

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Lie to cover up any truth I have shown

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Look around and see my classmates secret lives

See you comfortable with these lies

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As I give my advice, money, home, soul

You add on pointless busy work and we fall in a whole

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Only seventeen unsure of how to deal with any problem

Let alone these, when I’m left alone to solve them

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wishing for adult guidance when books and Google is not enough

But when were sworn to secrecy trusting is rough

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Searching for any reason to believe we can trust

Expecting us to do so without proper cause is anything but just

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When it’s said ‘be a teacher to aid and assist'

Yet no one ever seems to ask then persist

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After a bad thing goes public and it is asked “were there signs?”

Don’t wonder why we pretend to be just fine

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Resist lying to yourself and saying you tried because

All you ever really had to do was

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