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Screw Up


Oh fuck

This is what they Meant

When they said start being an adult

Well pump the brakes, put me in reverse

I don’t think I can survive in this universe

Because being an adult, it’s a curse

I feel like I can’t do anything right

Even though I try with all my might

Everything is going wrong and it feels like it’s out of spite

Up down all around

Everybody else has it figured out, safe and sound

But I’m hell bound

Headed down never to be found

Oh fuck, I’m such a screwup

It feels like the world is going to blow up

Pressure won’t ever let up

I guess on aisle four, there’s a cleanup

Because my life is on the ground

I feel like I’m gonna drowned

And I ain’t trying to say anything profound

Just realizing, oh fuck, I’m a screwup

I’m making mistakes I can’t cover up

So bracelet glass, bottoms up

Before I have to get back to reality and realize oh fuck really am a screwup

I wake up late

Oh no I can’t face reading my license plate

I don’t like the look of my economics state

And my golf game is looking not so great

I guess being a screwup is my fate

Because being an adult is super hard

My excitement is super scarred

My ego truly marred

My motivation locked up and bard

I pulled the wrong hand from the stack of cards

Oh fuck I’m such a screwup

No one told me it was gonna be this difficult, I needed a heads up

Don’t speed up

Won’t be able to keep up

I can barely keep my chin up

Well fuck I guess I am a screwup

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