(I got the unemployment blues. Hey I’ve got the unemployment blues)
Yesterday was so awful.
I get natural hangovers now.
Starts with the bile in my throat,
sheets feel like a coffin,
and I cannot break out.
My nausea’s consumed by self-doubt.
The saline has trickled down to my mouth.
Pain shoots up my head
as the room starts to spin and I try not to vomit.
For all the emails I’ve sent,
I’m just looking for a “no”.
Please don’t leave me here hanging in indefinite limbo…
This just feels like a way
to a broken heart.
Where you’ve worked all your life to be so goddamn perfect,
yet so easy to discard.
Hey, I’ve got the unemployment blues.
Hey, I’ve got the unemployment blues.
And let me tell you it’s hard not to take it personal.
I’m sick of the audition. (I’d be so much easier)
to turn on and tune in and drop out.
The more days that go by
the thicker the callous forms.
I submerge into philosophical headspins like,
“What would happen if I wasn’t born?”
It’s the George Bailey-complex
that I am so deathly afraid.
So I read and I read and I try to just breathe
but the feeling never goes away.
And I’ve done all the right things.
I’ve tried so hard to be someone…
and look where it got me!
The longer that I’m in this for the less I want
anything to do with you at all!
(I’m human too, I’m human too, I’m human too, I’m human)
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