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The Voices In My Head

from Heartlands by Arthur Durkee

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The Voices In My Head

You got to fit in
Don’t ever stand out
Don’t think for yourself
Don’t stand up and shout

Being different’s a sin
It won’t get you friends
You know what that means
It’s a means to an end

Don’t laugh
Don’t cry
Too much
You know why

Nobody you love
Will ever love you
If they knew who you were
They’d walk out on you

Got to keep it inside
Wherever you go
There are things in your heart
Nobody can know

Don’t talk
Don’t speak
Hold your tongue
You look weak

Don’t walk like a girl
Don’t simper and sigh
Got to act like a man
It’s do it or die

Take care of your act
Oretend you’re alright
Don’t appear to be soft
This is no place to fight

Be aquare
Don’t care
Be cool
Not a fool (no fool)

You’ve got a big secret
We don’t want to know
Don’t tell us your troubles
Just get up and go

Go back in that closet
Don’t dare to come out
Live alone in your head
Where there’s never a doubt

You will
Be syill
Shut up
Take a pill

You’ve got to fit in
Don’t dare to stick out
Get back in that closet
Don’t ever come out

Conform to the norm
Don’t mess up your life
Your family loves you
If you’d just get a wife!

Shut up / Sit down / Be like us / In our town
(Don’t laugh / Don’t cry / etc. to end)

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from Heartlands, released February 22, 2019

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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