Further into the fog I fall
Well, I was just following you

When you said, "Do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
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"Grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!"
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But the person underneath
Where does he go?
Does he slide by the wayside?
Or does he just die?

And you find that you've organized
Your feelings, for people
Who didn't like you then
And do not like you now

But still you say, "Do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
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"Grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!"
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"The safe way is the only way"
"There's always time to change, son"
I've changed, but I'm in pain
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    about being told to change to someone you are not and what happens possibly when you do

    mikevee33on November 06, 2014   Link

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