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lyrics

She’s taken my imaginary friend
And I’m upset I think I think
Things get more complex, it’s a trend
I hope that I can grasp before I sink

He’s left me for my spirit guide
I now doubt things I know I know
Are real. Keep calm. I won’t hide
My disappointment, everybody goes

How can he leave
With the boy who isn’t here?
How can he love the girl who can’t exist
In this or any other world?

He’s run off with two characters I wrote
Short stories for so long so long
Ago. I think one left me notes
In margins but I may be wrong

I never worked them out anyway
My other other self has gone
A partial person ought to stay
Forever – so I thought, turns out I’m wrong

How can she leave
With the boy who isn’t here?
How can she love the girl who can’t exist
In this or any other world?

Where have they gone? Where am I now?
There is so little of me left to show
And once I would have fought
But these days I am caught

There are more people here than you and me
Though none agree what’s real is real
There should be someone I can be
To keep the gang together. Seal

All the doors and count my shadows.
There’s more and more of them abscond
I need to be the one who’s quite
Certain where his fragments are tonight

What have they done? What can I do?
They think that I’m imaginary too
And once I would have argued
But recently I’m not so sure

credits

from Be Yourself in 11 Easy Lessons, released September 29, 2023
music by Hallam London
lyrics by Ian Badcoe

Hallam London – vocals, guitars, bass guitar
Kris Tearse – drums
Dave Sanderson – synthesizer

produced, mixed, and mastered by Dave Sanderson
published by Oh, my music!

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