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Manic
And you’ll never know if they thought you were witty
 And you’ll never be the same
 And you’ll sit in the smokey kitchen
 Cursing your own name
 
 Pull the cigarette away from your lips
 As your breath fogs up the glass
 Is it normal to hate yourself so much
 Is it normal to forget to ask
 
 Do you miss her? He whispers
 Do you remember the day she left
 You were standing in your pinstriped suit
 Dreary, dark and bereft
 
 So you’ll run out into traffic
 Headlights like watching eyes
 Take one last desperate drink before
 Your soul flies up to the sky
 
 But you never believed in heaven
 You never believed in God
 We never believed you’d run so fast
 Swallowed by darkness you were gone 
 
 Sometimes when I’m driving late at night
 The pedal against the floor
 I wonder if I keep on driving
 Will anything exist anymore
 
 And I’m screaming out your name to stars
 Screaming for the world you held not dear
 Like the cassettes stashed under my car seat
 The tapes you used to hear
 
 Fading into beautiful, gasping loneliness
 As you sat up in your room
 Typewriter across your stomach
 And the smell of cheap perfume
 
 Yeah she left you
 And you drank all night
 To forget all your despair
 We’re really sorry you forgot to sleep that night
 
 We’re sorry she forgot to care
 At all

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