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I've slipped the noose

The shackles, the shackles are off

My maturity fixation outshines

It's go for broke and fuck it all

With head held higher

I am the man that used to care

I am the man that used to care

I am the man that used to care

I am the man that used to care

Who was I then?

So quizzical with foresight

Now I've favored to savor the flavor of nine-to-five intuition

Out with the old, in with the new regime

I sold my soul to the robotized dream

I'm just an empty shell with integrity scooped out

A painted smile, a glass-eyed high on two that can't cry

Touch me, I'm cold to the merits of love

I stepped back from the edge when others slipped off

And all because society told me to

Told me to