“We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You’re not supposed to talk much anyway so it’s safe there. There’s also the gym. If you’re shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in. And there’s public transportation, because we all gotta go places. And there’s prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you’re hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation. Things you may have previously avoided based on your avoid-being-alone principals.
Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements. Like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school’s groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Because if you’re happy in your head then solitude is blessed and alone is okay.
And it doesn’t mean you’re not connected, that community’s not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. Take silence and respect it. If you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. If your family doesn’t get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don’t obsess about it.
You could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it.
Made a wrong turn Once or twice Dug my way out Blood and fire Bad decisions That’s alright Welcome to my silly life Mistreated, misplaced, missundaztood Miss “no way it’s all good” It didn’t slow me down Mistaken Always second guessing Underestimated Look, I’m still around…
Pretty, pretty please Don’t you ever, ever feel Like your less than Fuckin’ perfect Pretty, pretty please If you ever, ever feel Like your nothing You’re fuckin’ perfect to me
You’re so mean When you talk About yourself You are wrong Change the voices In your head Make them like you Instead So complicated Look how big you’ll make it Filled with so much hatred Such a tired game It’s enough I’ve done all i can think of Chased down all my demons see you same
Pretty, pretty please Don’t you ever, ever feel Like your less than Fuckin’ perfect Pretty, pretty please If you ever, ever feel Like your nothing
You’re fuckin’ perfect to me The world stares while i swallow the fear The only thing i should be drinking is an ice cold beer So cool in lying and I tried tried But we try too hard, it’s a waste of my time Done looking for the critics, cuz they’re everywhere They don’t like my genes, they don’t get my hair Stringe ourselves and we do it all the time Why do we do that? Why do I do that? Why do I do that?
Ooh, pretty pretty pretty, Pretty pretty please don’t you ever ever feel Like you’re less then, fuckin’ perfect Pretty pretty please if you ever ever feel Like you’re nothing you’re fuckin’ perfect, to me You’re perfect You’re perfect Pretty, pretty please don’t you ever ever feel like you’re less then, fucking perfect Pretty, pretty please if you ever ever feel like you’re nothing you’re fucking perfect to me
Praying won't do it Hating won't do it Drinking won't do it Fighting won't knock you out of my head
Hiding won't hide it Smiling won't hide it Like I ain't tried it Everyone's tried it now and failed somehow
So when you gonna let me When you gonna let me out, out?
And if you know How do you get up from an all time low? I'm in pieces, seems like peace is the only thing I'll never know How do you get out, get out?
'Cause driving won't do it Flying won't do it Denying won't do it Crying won't drown it out, what you said
When I'm standing on the yellow line, waiting at the station Or I'm late for work, a vital presentation If you call me now girl without reservation I would try to break through
But if you know How do you get up from an all time low? I'm in pieces, seems like peace is the only thing I'll never know How do you get up from an all time low?
I can't even find a place to start How do I choose between my head and heart? 'Til it ceases, I'll never know How do you get up from an all time low?
A low, a low, a low, a low, a low, a low Can you hear me? A low, a low, a low, a low, a low, a low Can't you hear me? A low, a low, a low, a low, a low, a low Can you hear me? A low, a low, a low, a low, a low, a low
And if you know How do you get up from an all time low? I'm in pieces, seems like peace is the only thing I'll never know How do you get up from an all time low?
I can't even find a place to start How do I choose between my head and heart 'Til it ceases, I'll never know How do you get up from an all time low?
I can't even find a place to start How do I choose between my head and heart 'Til it ceases, I'll never know How do you get up from an all time low?
I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home sitting all alone inside your head
How do you feel? That is the question
But I forget.. you don't expect an easy answer
When something like a soul becomes
Initialized and folded up like paper dolls and little notes
You can't expect a bit of hope
So while you're outside looking in
Describing what you see
Remember what you're staring at is me
Cause I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head
How much is real? So much to question
An epidemic of the mannequins
Contaminating everything
When thought came from the heart
It never did right from the start
Just listen to the noises
(Null and void instead of voices)
Before you tell yourself
It's just a different scene
Remember it's just different from what you've seen
I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
And all I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That shine for you
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That lie to you.. yeah-ah
I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head
'Cause I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your heaaaaddd
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That shine for you.. yeah-ah
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That lie to you.. yeah-ah
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That shine for you.. yeah-ah
And it's the starrrssss
The sttarrrsss
That lie to you.. yeah-ah yeah
Ohhhoh when the starrs
Ohhh oh when the starrrrs that liieee