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Systems Failure
By Zatari
01 May 2007
This is a song I've written about the three people I care about most. I can't write music by the way, so I guess technically, it's just a poem. But whatever. Enjoy!


Systems Failure

Chorus:
I never realised how hard growing up could be
My life was going great until I hit thirteen
My systems are failing and I don’t know what to do
Is there someone who can help me, someone I can tell my problems to?


My girlfriend and my two best mates
Keep trying to slit their wrists
I’ve been trying to explain
But they still don’t get my gist
I wish that they could only see
What their self-harming’s doing to me
Killing, murder, suicide
It’s all the same:
You’re ending a life


Chorus


I’m “too kind-hearted for my own good”
It’s nice knowing she cares
And she says I worry more than I should
About other people’s affairs
Everyone’s problems in my head
People wishing they were dead
Killing, murder, suicide
It’s all the same:
You’re ending a life


I can’t sleep, I’ve gone off food, I think I’ve fallen in love
If he exists, he’s got a grudge against me, the homophobic God above

Reviews

Written by AnnieSeed (128 comments posted) 8th May 2007
Maybe you could get someone else to set it to music?  
 
Who's the "she" in the second stanza? There's a girlfriend in the first stanza but the sentiments expressed by "she" don't seem to ring true for a self-harming teenage girl. Is "she" the mother of the person speaking?

Written by Zatari (1 comments posted) 18th May 2007
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I'll get my girlfriend to help me write it. 
 
OK, lemme explain; this is all from my point of view, as all this stuff is actually happening to me right now. The first stanza was when I tried to explain to them that suicide is murder, you just can't be arrested for it because you're dead. The quoted sentence in the second stanza was what my girlfriend said about me, because she thinks I worry too much, and that it's not helping me to try and help everyone else. 
By the way, I don't self-harm, ok? I have a subconscious fear of wrists that originates from my friend self-harming in front of me when I was 10. Ok, I think I've exhausted this explanation now.

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