Isolation is an easy trick: find something and walk away from it. I’ve got a minor brilliance. I’ve got a tiny skill set. I feel like a nuisance talking to my own friends. I’ve got a hundred million ideas that are brewing. I’ve had luck and fortune, and I’ve felt really stupid, but isolation is an easy trick. Don’t call me up. I don’t give a fuck. You’re shit out of luck and a little bit drunk. I tried enough to rise above and stay tolerant of this joke you call love. I’m a hermit because the person I was was a cynic at best and a stick in the mud. Here all alone on this island of one, I go to sleep late and wake up when I want.
I’ve got a dozen reasons. I’ve got a hundred secrets. And I’ve got all these songs that I write weekends. And I’ve got a couple great things, and I’ve got my big weakness: that I love my isolation.
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