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Don't you have to speak now?
Not just look and half smile
All I want's to feel
That I'm barely real

I feel like string
I feel like nothing

Who's the silence for now?
Can your heart still hold
Everything...
Untold?

I feel like string
I feel like nothing

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fadetoblack123 On Dec 08, 2008

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by all4h

12y ago

"Don't you have to speak now? Not just look and half smile All I want's to feel That I'm barely real"

I totally get this. He just wants the person he spoke so much to to speak back instead of just looking on and smirking. He feels so insulted by this that he wants to feel "barely real", which could be some sort of reference to a drug (codeine perhaps?).

rest of the song's pretty obvious I guess

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