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Internal Turmoil
How to tell people
The thing they knew about me
Has changed
Maybe for better
Maybe for worse
And I won’t be sorry
When the arguments
Throw me over the edge
Out of their lives
Feels like the closest friends
Try to understand
And I know they're supporting me
But I can’t get out of my head
That it's wrong
Every day I think I'm lying
That what I said
Could be fake
A scam
And I’ve done too much damage
Can’t go back now
Because I'm a mess
A spillage of gas
With a lit match
Fake smiles when they mention
Inside they don’t know
That I’m shielding my emotions
And it doesn't help
It has become my personality
I really wish it hadn't
I don’t know if it's true
Or if I’m making it up
I need to know
I’ve always been one way
Now that's changed
If only I could know
With an easier escape
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