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I Wouldn't Leave Here If You Paid Me

from Loneliness Leaves The Light On For Me by Aviator

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Sleep well, don't wake up
Sit tight, don't get up
Sit pretty, do your makeup
Sit quiet, don't speak

I'll sit here all day dreaming of the world that I see on the TV screen
I'll stay here all night staring out the window with a fear of what's outside
See myself in the mirror, I am shaking my head
introverted with glossy eyes
Thoughts rich with "I can't"s & "what if"s
Got nothing to prove, nothing to hide

And it's hopeless. Romanticism gets you nowhere, except hurt
With a cinematic view of the world, when will we ever learn?

There's something wrong with my skin,
It won't shed itself like it used to
There's something wrong with my eyes,
They don't get wet anymore
Grown out of touch with my hands,
No empathy for myself or anyone else
There's someone dead in this house
Don't wake them up

Just keep pumping quarters into that machine
Hit the feeding bar for answers never received
Don't question me, don't question me
With fingertips in bandages, drag your knuckles across the broken glass
Feel nothing but the feed, another routine on repeat

Cut me down, I am a figment of purpose
Fill us with your dreams and monotony
Build me up
We aren't the same with artificial roots
There's someone dead in this house
Don't wake them up

Close the windows of our minds to open windows on a device
Digital hands, analog minds.
Are we regressing into the dark age?
Makeshift cave, illuminated face
Pixel mouth with nothing to say
Just a white screen to light our way

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from Loneliness Leaves The Light On For Me, released June 23, 2017

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Fluent, tasty, assured, mature, authoritative, individual, big, bustling, hard, virile, very masculine, sinuous, sinewy, muscular, thoughtful, modern (yet rooted in tradition), imaginative, sensitive, consistently fine.

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