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Songs-in-a-Bottle Pete's Songs in a Bottle

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Nothing Inside

now I'm examining my life, with reluctance looking back on my mistakes
in the picture, at the centre, is my lonely broken heart and how it aches
the majority of all these painful self-inflicted wounds and scars and cuts
are direct results of imbecilic choices I have made, no ifs or buts

now I've got nothing inside, my reasons for living have died
I've got nothing to live for, nothing inside
and I've got nowhere to go, I've lived but there's nothing to show for it
no sense of fulfilment, nothing inside

with my arrogant presumption that the world was just a toy with which to play
I've surmounted every obstacle that dared to place itself there in my way
in my vanity of vanities I didn't question just what I desired
all my spectacularly ill-judged aspirations have rebounded and backfired

now I've got nothing inside, my reasons for living have died
I've got nothing to live for, nothing inside
and I've got nowhere to go, I've lived but I've nothing to show for it
no sense of fulfilment, nothing inside

now the lesson was for learning from the start but at this moment it's too late
and the things I value now are things I've lost that I cannot recuperate
I can only point the finger at myself, cos I'm the only one to blame
so just listen to these words and take some action or in time you'll feel the same

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