Myth of Lasting Sympathy
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[00:00.49]Someone cruel gave me my dreams last night.
[00:03.46]I barely stood before a darkened closet, baring skin and soul before its unseen jaws.
[00:08.24]"You will never be the creature that you were when you were younger," it whispered.
[00:12.05]We get disconnected from our childhood.
[00:14.99]We tell our stories like we read them in a book but had not lived them.
[00:18.67]I don't remember much from then but I do remember what a closet
[00:21.24]Becomes when the lights go off and I know the many things that fill it up.
[00:25.40]When we used to have dreams like this we called them nightmares.
[00:28.05]We ran barefoot through the halls of our house and clung to our
[00:30.68]Parents sheets like they were the only real thing left in the world.
[00:33.89]And my mother? She would save us, you and I.
[00:36.39]She would lead us hand in hand through the hallway that made us feel silly
[00:38.97]For seeming run by shadows and endless only moments before.
[00:42.67]And I'm here now, barely standing in the land of dreams before it,
[00:45.79]And I see you, I see myself as a child sitting inside.
[00:49.22]Scared.
[00:50.13]Crying.
[00:50.76]And you have every reason.
[00:52.23]Because while we grow up through song and story learning that love is everything in this world
[00:55.97]And that while we believe it and want it more than any single thing...
[00:59.63]I know that when we have it, we destroy it.
[01:02.11]That when we grow up, you and I, that we cheat.
[01:04.17]That we find the girl we love and that we lose her because we learn to love ourselves much more.
[01:08.17]That the friends that we make will drift away once we have leeched them dry.
[01:11.65]That the mother who turned our darkened scary hallways into pathways to a bedroom
[01:15.71]Will call us and miss us and love us and we will stay hidden.
[01:19.55]That really, we will be cruel!
[01:21.08]That in the stories we want told to us before we fall asleep,
[01:23.91]The heroes are ideals that never get reached and the villains are absolutely ordinary.
[01:28.68]And we are absolutely ordinary.
[01:30.54]And you stare back at me through the closet and into the world
[01:33.38]That I never really changed and ask me the only thing you want to know.
[01:37.06]"When we grow up, do we still get scared when the lights go out?"
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