A Book's As Good As A Suicide

from Cautious Optimism by Arsenic!

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I always feel like I want to disapear.
It makes me sad to live without someone that I can't live without.
And I don't think that happiness is here.
I meant to say that I'm in the way, but I won't bother anyone.

There's still a place that I'll always know.
My friends are there and I often go.
Where I'm not scared and I don't hide.
Because a book's as good as a suicide.

I need someone to tell me who to be.
A drug adiction at its height -
what story should I read tonight?
The pain is always catching up to me,
And loneliness has settled in
But what I read just save my life.

Arsenic and formaldehyde.
We hide the things that we want to hide.
A book's as good as a suicide.
A book's as good as a suicide.

We met at school and talked the night away.
Someone to touch me and to wipe away the tears we cried tonight.
If only I could say it was my own
And not some fictional fantasy, I wouldn't have to risk my life anymore.

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from Cautious Optimism, released January 20, 2015
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