Did someone stack the deck?

Feeling nothing, the new normal.

Passionless crawl into bed.

Midnight scrolling for adventure.

I’m too young to feel so dead.

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Never dreamt about this future.

Worked so hard to end up here.

All alone through life, I journey.

Wishing I could disappear.

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Truth be told I think it’s happened,

no one even knows I’m here

Walk around like a ghost unseen

In a haze like some bad dream,

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Living dead, I wander lonely

Watching others live their dreams

Not living mine or moving forward

Not dead or alive, but in between.

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I had it all, the life I dreamed of

It fell in place just as I planned

But like a thief, it all was taken

Fate took it all out of my hands

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I live each day like it’s the last one,

I smile, I laugh, I wear that mask.

Everything‘s fine is what I tell you,

Yeah, everything‘s fine, if you should ask

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Breathe in, breathe out, just one more step

Sometimes the simple things are hard.

That’s how it’s been since lonely crept

Into my fragile house of cards

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