Shut It Tight, T Bone Burnett

I find it hard sometimes to say the way that I feel

I do the very things I hate to do

I act like a child and I'm afraid of what is real

And so I try to cover up the truth

The difficulty of being in control of one’s life; exemplifies life under the paradigm of self.

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