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"16 Shades of Blue", Tori Amos
That's it, you're done. You've screwed up your life before it's begun. There are those who say I am now too old to play See over there? At thirty-three she fears she'll lose her job Because they hear the ticking of her clock At only fifteen, I said FIFTEEN, they say her future's bleak She should have started this at three As her heart is slowly ripping into pieces Disconnecting from the circuits of her mind
I've felt old since I was sixteen, but I've also felt younger than everyone else I know for the longest time -- even when I distinctly am not. I'm not sure what time I'm upon, or why it moves this way; I just know I'm lost within it.
And I never tell people my real age, for two reasons:
I am wholly grateful for that latter one, and am aware that I am spectacularly lucky in that respect, believe me. I stopped being annoyed at getting carded almost a decade ago.
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