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This song was written at a low point, and I often saw a newspaper ad for an after-school tutoring program that was headlined: "Is Your Child Caught In A Failure Chain?" At the time, it felt like the answer was "Yes." The song is written in a tuning I made up, but can't remember now...

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I'm killing myself with kindness
why couldn't it be you instead
I have to get sick before I get well
I'm not fit for human contact

I'm not as sane as we thought
I didn't learn as much as I was taught
like the best minds of my disintegration
sitting in the dark in the handicapped spaces

I tried to make myself get up
and build a world that I could live on

The world caved in
A bullet-eating balloon

I showed her the ad which said
"Is you child caught"
I thought, "no doubt"
she said "Come on, that's not you"

I tried to make myself get up and build
a world that I could live on

Viewfinder registered nothing
I loaded up my backpack

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from Tape Travels: 20th Anniversary Edition, released December 14, 2016

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