Get off my back

Does it make you feel better?

When I smile after you speak

Taunting me and bugging me

Never knowing what it really does

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You comment on my laugh

And how I never seem to stop

But did you ever think to consider

That I do this instead of cry

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If you were to see me cry

I know you wouldn’t look at me the same

There’d be that pity in your eyes

A look that puts me to shame

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I know I shouldn’t complain much

Because what you say is actually funny

But did you ever think that maybe

You could give it a break

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Maybe let me have a day

Where I’m not judged and made fun of

The ‘special’ one amongst the group

And always bugged about what bus I ride

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I don’t ride any busses

After so many years I thought you’d know that by now

But still you tease while I just smile

Pretending like it all just rolls off my back

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It doesn’t

Everything you say sticks

And I remember it in the end

It doesn’t just roll off

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But how do I tell you

To just leave me alone for once

Without breaking down and then you’ll stare

With pity in your eyes

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In the end, it’ll all just be the same.

You’ll still throw your jokes

And I’ll just laugh them off

Like it doesn’t even matter

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Like it doesn’t affect me

But it does matter

And it does affect me,

More than you’ll ever know