Shadow or a Silhouette

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I reckon that I'm seldom looking back
Thought that I could extract a time or mood
What my empty hand once held had gone through
My knowledge and my skills are spread so thin
21st century kid lacking subtlety
Cause his overloaded sensory

I slow down, I'm thinking do I live my life
Like a shadow or a silhouette

I walk like, I talk like, I do everything that you like
If I could I would be you

Sit on my hands and count to ten
Stuck inside some kind of dead end
Can't get out of bed, I'll just consult the web

I'd rather lay in cold embrace of facts
Anything too abstract I can't contain
Fire on my heart and on my brain
Winds of change I long for your caress
I'm feeling so...compress me wave to line
So meekly go, so weakly flow through time

I'm slowing down, I'm thinking do I live my life
Like a shadow or a silhouette

I walk like, I talk like, I do everything that you like
If I could I would be you...
Now I feel like a shadow of someone I never knew

Think on the life I want to live
Just a glimpse then through a sieve
Doing what I'm told
I've turned so cold

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from The Wakemen, released January 7, 2019

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