13 Stories

The present is a gift to take apart

Make yourself a wish or lose your heart

Another cloud is roaming through the sky

It doesn’t really hurt, no I feel fine

I know

What I need to know

I wouldn’t get too close

The perfect life was right under my nose

Everybody knows

That I’ve been lying low

So wake me up to prove I’m not alone

And yet it keeps you awake

In the middle of a hot summer’s night

You debate your decisions in bed

Oh just look at them

You’re staring 13 stories down

At the pissed

And the blissful as they kiss

On their way home

And they miss

All the pitfalls of a life that’s just business

Kiss the empathy goodbye

Just automate them subservient brides

I know

What I need to know

I wouldn’t get too close

The perfect life was right under my nose

Everybody knows

That I’ve been lying low

So wake me up to prove I’m not alone

This ones for when you feel like letting go

Is the only way to deal

This ones for when you see

The world, for what it is and could be

This ones for when you feel like letting go

Is the only way to deal

This ones for when you see

The world, for what it is and could be