Are you listening to what I’m saying?
Can you look me in the eye?
Can you raise your head up from that screen?
There’s no better offer I can provide
Can I trust in your discretion?
This is something I need to put you through
Are you ready to talk to me seriously?
Face to face, like friends used to do
I am not an open book
I’m choosy about who can take a look
I have no desire to blurt out my innermost thoughts
I don’t shout “look at me”
Don’t crave attention or sympathy
Won’t confide in imaginary friends, over the internet
I’m starting to feel like a visitor here
More and more that I don’t understand
How can people all live so close to each other,
Yet many are solitary grains in the sand
There are so many ways to communicate now
You’d think we’d understand each other better
But farther away, we grow from each other
Maybe I should’ve just wrote you a letter
I am not an open book …
If you’re troubled, you can call me
I’ll come to wherever you are
I’ll listen to all you have to say
It’s better that way… better that way
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