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Now I Know.


Your drug induced slurs no longer give me peace.
I wish you'd clean up your act before your insides become deceased.

Now that I'm sober I don't know how it never came to mind,
that your behavior clearly showed that you were fucked up all the time.

It's funny how easy the script can be flipped.
Now I understand why my parents wanted me clipped.

Clipped. Cleaned. Cleansed of my afflictions.
Now I know the horrors seen down the roads of addiction.

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