Oh yeah! A study of history reveals an unflagging appeal to mystery You talk about abstraction at the top of the list But you might as well get pissed, cause in me the essence does not exist, no-oh-oh Yeah yeah! You're so shallow How can your romance hope to be the veil of an ersatz human nature That can pacify but never slept well when there's the pretension of living a lie Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes I can say I'll behave freely all the time You can predict what I'll say, it's in my DNA But soon I'll be a catalogue number anyway So say a little prayer Convince yourself that someone cares All I am is what you see There is nothing more than the surface of me [x2], You know Oh yeah! Apologies to Skinner, but I do believe that I feel like I'm a winner Having just discovered a long solved modal secret, of how I always feel So goddamn downtrodden and desperate Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes I can say I'll behave freely all the time You can predict what I'll say, it's in my DNA But soon I'll be a catalogue number anyway So say a little prayer Convince yourself that someone cares All I am is what you see There is nothing more than the surface of me [x6] What you see is the surface of me
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