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How to Feel Okay


Teach me how to drink ma

Show me how you lost your way

Pa will turn the other cheek

I just want to feel okay

 

Ma teach me how to hit the pipe

Show me how to waste the day

Pa will turn a blind eye

I just want to feel okay

 

Teach me a lesson in pills ma

Show me how to waste away

Pa won’t say a word

I just want to feel okay

 

Ma teach me how to cut a line

Show me no escape

I expect pa’s silence

I just want to feel okay

 

Help tie my arm pa

Show me how to choose a vein

I don’t say a word

I just get high and feel okay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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