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Verse 1:

Insecurity festers in my heart

Picking my tranquility apart

Internalized affliction

Intiates my self-destruction

Chorus:

Reality tightens its grip on me

Slow to react, missed opportunity

Brainwashed by authority

Struggling as my own entity

Post-chorus:

Why can't I be as good as them?

This lack of ambition and drive

Is all my fault - I can't take it

Why am I like this? I detest myself

Verse 2:

Crushed under the pressure

of an uncertain future

Expectations for me not met

I just want to soon forget

Chorus:

Reality tightens its grip on me

Slow to react, missed opportunity

Brainwashed by authority

Struggling as my own entity

Post-chorus 2:

I didn't know what I was doing

I"m sorry I didn't mean to

End up a huge fucking disappointment

and I feel such inferiority

-Bridge-

Chorus:

Reality tightens its grip on me

Slow to react, missed opportunity

Brainwashed by authority

Struggling as my own entity