Comfortably Dumb - Pears

I am afraid, afraid of my shadow

So I don’t go outside

Afraid of my dentist

So my teeth are fallin' out

My canines are septic

All flesh and decay

Cause I only bite if I’m threatened, afraid

Fight or flight switch

On when it broke

An uneasy punchline

A horrible joke

The fictional frontline

To which I’ve been drafted

Will bend to my will

If it ever should happen

But wartime cares not

For joy of existing

I can’t help but wonder

The world I am missing

And I am terrified

Of what I have become

Comfortably dumb

Endearing to some

Peddling scares

In the place of a pass time

But I’m just a lily

Disguised as a landmine

For short bursts of Time

I puff out my chest

But my asthma requires

Me to take baby breaths

My closest connections

Transmissions in code

And I miss my Memaw

When I’m on the road

I’m oddly obsessed

With being depressed

I’d heal if I wanted

But likely remain a mess

I am terrified

Of what I have become

Comfortably dumb

Endearing to some

I am terrified

Of what I have become

Comfortably dumb

Endearing to some

And I am terrified

Of what I have become

Observed from a distance

Endearing to none