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Sixteen years looking up at the blackboard

I don’t even know how to read

I got pills to make the hamster wheels turn faster

But the monkey’s in the driver’s seat

And now I tear myself apart about everything at once

I miss my good old lack of self esteem

You can take out the wax and tie me to the mast

I gotta hear the sirens scream

Don’t listen to me

I just need a good night’s sleep

And you keep me up all night

Can’t talk right

I’m falling into my clothes

And even though I’m feeling like death

I can’t be upset

'Cause I finally know

You can document the teenage wildlife

Psychoanalyze the modern man

You can classify 'em all by blood type

But you’re never gonna understand

What if panic were the right reaction

To the anno domini milieu

I’m too sleepy for the main distraction

Downtown lights could never glow like you

I’m going to sleep

And then you keep me up all night

Can’t talk right

I’m falling into my clothes

And even though I’m feeling like death

I can’t be upset

'Cause I finally know

I don’t want to be an animal (oh no)

But you’re making this hard for me

But I don’t want to be an animal (oh no)

But you don’t wanna go

And you keep me up all night

Can’t talk right

I’m falling into my clothes

And even though I’m feeling like death

I can’t be upset

'Cause I finally know

I finally know

I finally know

I finally know

I finally know