All Been Said Before by Matt Nathanson

this is how i'm feeling tonight.....
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I am
held together by clothespins
and tension,
a wealth of odds and ends
I'm dazzling, so dazzling
like the neon street sign
hiccuping off and on again all night
long
Well I've got magazine friends
and enough jealousy to lose them all
But I know this has all been said before

I shed what
what escape my fiction provided
I lived a lifetime inside of my shelter
and I thought it about time to see outside
And I believed it was easy,
stupidly thought I could just get up and walk away
But I know this has all been said before
I know this has all been said before

I've got illness
hugging me like skin
and I'll shed it clean till I can taste the oxygen

But I know
This has all been said before