We need a pill to stay awake
A different one to fall asleep
We need a calendar to help
Keep straight the hours days and weeks
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We work to pay for things
racked up on a credit card
That in a couple months
We’re selling in our own front yards
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We operate by schedules
Communicate by telephone
Our conversations based upon
Which tv app that we have on
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We set reminders to remind us
Tomorrow and next Saturday
And when we should be sleeping
We lie restlessly awake
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Over stimulated yet-Living all alone
I can’t go anywhere unless connected to my damn cellphone
I cannot fall to sleep but don’t want to wake up the next day
I wonder how much longer we can exist this way
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It’s such a viscous cycle
Like a suped up carousel
In a world so complicated
I should just probably take the pills
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