i took a section from this and used it for 'gone' so i kind of thought they were too similar to do anything with this. and we used the instrumental end as part of the score for 'a chronicle of the madness of small worlds' in 2018
lyrics
Seldom that I'm with you
I can think of anything else
Keeping myself tensed up
Keeps from getting close enough
And seldom that I'm with alone
And not wishing for someone to touch me
But seldom that I'm with you
And enjoying being close to you
What's the point of all this stuff that always going on?
Most of it's pure garbage and I'm left fighting like a dog
Just to get to the heart of the matter
I don't think that life
Gets any better than this
It just keeps going on
In an endless stream of piss
Even the moments I like
Pass so swiftly I can't catch them
And the ones I don't think as nice
Also happen faster than lightning
Sometimes I can't even tell if any of this real
Clock moves faster slower
Depending on how I feel
Relative to the stars way out in the sky
But to the stars we're the ones far away
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