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Paperbacks and pills are all I need to feel all right
She said "thanks for the invite, but I'm staying in tonight
I know it's been awhile since I came to your neighborhood,
but times ain't good."

Taking tramadol and losing myself in the page
lately I've been feeling much, much older than my age
but everybody's got to take their turn inside the cage, sometimes
Oh, sometimes. But I'll be all right

Paperback distraction
Pills for satisfaction
They don't love me back
But I don't need all that

I can sense resistance
You're keeping your distance
You don't love me back
But I don't need all that

Yeah, I read those books you left by Marx and Fred Engels
I don't understand them but they look good on my shelves
I guess now you know I'm not so intellectual after all
Oh, at all. But I do all right.

Paperback distraction
Pills for satisfaction
They don't love me back
But I don't need all that

I can sense resistance
You're keeping your distance
You don't love me back
But I don't need all that

We all know where this will lead
There's time to kill habits to feed, somehow
Oh, somehow.
Smoke existential cigarettes
and take whatever I can get for now.
Oh, for now.

Paperbacks and pills they get me through when times get tough
I lie about reading Shakespeare but you never call my bluff
If this ain't working out just let me know you've had enough
and I'll go
Oh, I'll go. 'Cause I'll still be all right.

Paperback distraction
Pills for satisfaction
They don't love me back
But I don't need all that

I can sense resistance
You're keeping your distance
You don't love me back
But I don't need all that