Locked Uptight
Paid my dues to earn a place in civilized society
Missed a step on the stairs to slam into poverty
Old leathered boots wore a frayed sense of finality
Locked uptight in my own inner battle with anxiety
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Presumptuous platitudes push patience past piety
Insolence ingratiates itself into ignorant impropriety
Virtue vacillates, vying, voluptuous vapid vanity
Locked uptight in my own inner battle with anxiety
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Altered state drives my vehicle in shaky cold sobriety
Self imposed exile from a familiar haunt's notoriety
Found the purpose but fear the navigator's naivety
Locked uptight in my own inner battle with anxiety
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Reflection in the mirror meets the face of its entirety
A dance once denied steps up to embrace its propriety
Tumbling through tangoed turns holding on defiantly
Locked in truth to fight my own inner battle with anxiety
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