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Don't try and tell me. "It's okay." That I feel this way? A lifeless body left to decay. A emotionless mind lead astray. Don't try and tell me. "It's okay."
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Don't try and tell me. "It's okay." That I feel this way? A lifeless body left to decay. A emotionless mind lead astray. Don't try and tell me. "It's okay."
The speaker is fed up with being told everything is fine. The poem opens and closes with the same demand, "Don't try and tell me. 'It's okay,'" so the line works like a door shut on both ends.
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