Paint By Numbers

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on the playground you learned how 
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to share with the kids,
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but you still didn't feel you fit 
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in.
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how fitting your confusion when 
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you turned 16:
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you knew how to paint by numbers, 
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but you knew it wasn't rock and 
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roll.



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you learned tight pants, spray 
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paint, and eyeliner.
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you said glam rock would save your 
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soul.
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but you couldn't grasp that the 
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rebellion you wanted
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wasn't something you could ever be 
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sold.


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and I never understood how someone 
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could be so willing to be
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absorbed into what I never thought 
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could pass as identity.
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and I always felt bad for the kids 
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who had to share their faces
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with sad teenagers across the world
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who'd found something to fill their
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 loss,
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without ever addressing the cause.



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then I saw your speech impediment 
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imitated exactly
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by a girl in seattle and a guy in 
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minneapolis,
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so i guess you must have learned 
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that from tv


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you said you'd find yourself for 
real,
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but fell that far from the goal-
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you had to paint by numbers but 
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knew it wasn't r-r-r-r-rock and roll
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