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Life Is Perfect (But I Can't Enjoy It) (TSOTW 2015​-​16)

from A Storage Auction in the Form of an Album (Quarantine 2020​!​) by Amanda Rose Riley

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You know, I wear jeans in the summer heat because I'm afraid to show my skin
I'm so busy hiding my imperfections and wishing I were supermodel thin
Sometimes when I go outside and a stranger gives me a smile
I have to look down because I'm uncomfortable with mine
And no matter how hard I try my hair is always a mess
Nor am I too happy with my face, or any part of me, I guess

And life is perfect and I can't enjoy it

I know the city in my backyard's a great one but for me it'll never suffice
It's got everything most could want, but lacks something in my eyes
No, I like to visit cities far across the sea
Convince myself that they feel more like home to me
I waste time being frustrated for being on the wrong side of the pond
And when I finally focus my vision on the here and now again it's gone

And life is perfect and I can't enjoy it

You know, I wait for truth to strike like lightning
Though I realize it can't exist that way
I know I just have to grab at what I want
While trying to act decent both good and bad days
And I know that the freedom I have is enough at least in a practical sense
Not living in a fascist state or some impoverished tenement
I mean, there isn't really much in this world I absolutely could not do
If with all my energies and efforts I proved I really wanted to

And life is perfect and I can't enjoy it

But if you were here
I could put this all behind me, throw all these yearnings away
Any circumstance or place would do as long as I had you
I could find the magic in plain old reality
Feel so beautiful and walk so tall
I could focus on my worthier dreams, which I'd be able to clearly see
If you were here... if you were real
But I guess if I'm all I have in my life
For at least a little while
It's never that hard to find things that make me smile.

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from A Storage Auction in the Form of an Album (Quarantine 2020​!​), released March 20, 2020

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