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Are You Afraid of Life?
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Come forward, walking backward, up Downing Street
Slap a baby, kiss a leper, cut off both your feet.
I don't want to be disconnected from my disconcerted brain
Give up the once familiar, now long-lost refrain
Are you afraid of life?
Are you afraid of living?
Once I earned it, and then I stole it, I took all I could grab
There was a virgin, a gorgeous harlot and an overrated dad
Everything was washing over me on that day
It might be kind of fucked up, but it's fucked up in its own way
Are you afraid of life?
Are you afraid of living?
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She should've been the drummer
in a riot grrl punk band
in high school.
But she was a ballerina.
I wish I could've seen her
when she danced.
If there had been the chance
There would have been romance
She is my best friend.
She's so smart and wonderful
and we go together better than I ever
thought I could've with anyone
My true love
My one and only
True Love.
A graduate of art school
and two running space camps,
my book worm
has a narrow face with curls
falling over glasses
and witch-y clothes
If there had been the chance
There would have been romance
She is my best friend.
She's so smart and wonderful
and we go together better than I ever
thought I could've with anyone
My true love
My one and only
True Love.
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