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no sir, nihilism is not practical. but i practice it none the less
sodapop

I am thirteen
 1
I'm staring at the asphalt wondering what's buried underneath
 2
This black market reformation
 3
Makes me want to get hurt
 4
I see you before you bury yourself alive
 5
Because haven't you heard, I'm the new cancer?
 6
 
 
The smokes in the cigarette box on the table
 7
They just so happen to be
 8
                laced
 9
                               with
 10
                                              nitroglycerin
 11
I've never been so surreptitious
 12
So of course you'll be distracted when i spike the punch
 13
For haven't you heard, I'm the new cancer?!?
 14
 
 
It just doesn't feel like a night out
 15
with no one sizing you up
 16
I want to hate you
 17
Half as much as I hate myself
 18
From want and misery [the nothing that kills]
 19
i wish i was as invisible as you make me feel
 20
Haven't you heard, I'm the new cancer?!?!
 21
 
 
I want a lover I don't have to love
 22
From want and misery [the nothing that kills]
 23
Love's just an excuse to get hurt
 24
Because haven't we all heard I'm the new cancer!
 25

this was written for school. we had to quote songs and "describe the problems in our life" with them.

2 Feb 06

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I gotta come back to this later, but love it so far.
 — FangzOfFire

mhm.
that's really wonderful.
i loved seeing the bright eyes in there too.
this is wonderful.
 — slowtesque

thanks so much fangz and slow. glad you liked it.
 — sodapop

great title.
maybe you could give more emphasis on the lines you repeat (21,25, 14, 6) because it does get repetitive after awhile and you get used to it, which i guess isn't a bad thing but still ... maybe you could make it more urgent? possibly an exclamation point would work for that ... get more urgent as you go, as though you, the new cancer, wants to be heard. it would change the sound a lot though.
 — listen

thanks for the advice listen. i added a bit more "urgency" as you say with the exclamations and i think it sounds a lot better. [when read aloud anyway]
 — sodapop

niiiice i really like.
amazing song choices.
you've got a good ear for good music it seems.

thanks for the comment love.
<33 xoxo
 — colormetink

oops, forgot to give it a rating
here we go.
 — colormetink

thanks. i was hoping you guys would like my music. no one at my school knew where any of the quotes were coming from.
 — sodapop

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IM AT YOUR SCHOOL AND I KNOW WHERE ITS FROMM LOLZZZZ.

<000000 (ice cream) I GAVE YOU LOTS OF SCOOPS COS YOU ARE SPECIALLLL TOOO MEEEEEE.
 — cielo298
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