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(VERSE 1): A fifth or more, with more in store Connects my time with yours But while you share it all with me I seek ways to obscure -[Fill] Your everything is natural My everything’s rehearsed I recognize your needs and wants But fail to sate your thirst (PRE CHORUS): I’m muted, too rooted Unsuited for this chance But muted and rooted Shouldn’t be looked at askance I’m muted, too rooted Not equal with your zeal, But muted, and rooted Doesn’t prove it isn’t real (CHORUS): Long ago my butterflies Were crushed beneath the salt The accumulated encumbrance Ground ‘em to a halt So the absence of a fluttering Is nobody's fault But the beating still echoes Deep within my heart (VERSE 2): I see your hesitation When our reactions aren’t in sync But our lopsided demonstration Just demonstrates my chink -[Fill] For once upon another life With former guarantees I blindly handed them the knife They buried into me (PRE CHORUS): I’m muted, unsuited, For how you want to share But though

(VERSE 1-A): Tally-tied Weave lats and longs, ‘till at long last Our checkered hide Ticks off the throng, tacks to what’s passed Time gets applied Write all the wrongs by marking the caste Sloped slip n’ slide Along cuz they asked when told (VERSE 1-B): Ill employed All that’s right is all that’s left Schadenfreude It’s out of sight despite it’s heft Asteroid? Being forthright, what do we expect? All in all, it seems in line with what’s told (PRE CHORUS 1): Midnight through noon -No rights ‘till all is right Remain in your room -No rights ‘till all is right It’ll be over soon -No rights ‘till all is right If you remain in your room -Yada, yada, yada (REPEAT) (CHORUS 1): Singing stir-crazed threnodies To an audience of one We turned blind ayes at zero sum And did it all for none. Illumination atrophrophies Under phosfluorescent suns Culture’s canceled, pack it up! We did it all for none. (VERSE 2): March or May? Greeting seasons as meanings are lost March? We May, Long as the