A Perfect Failure

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I'm the perfect boy, the Mona Lisa painted just for you.

I'm everything you've ever dreamed about,

the one who'd show you what it was like to be in love.

The one who'd show you just what there is on the inside.

A shame you can't do the same.

Please, show me, just for me, what's on the 

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Is there anything there? 

Is there color in the darkness that evades me?

Please, let me see that there's a sparkle in my eyes, a shock in my words.

Show me that there's depth behind my eyes and I'm not irrefutably, impossibly,

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Am I a robot? Programmed to live out utter perfection?

What's it like to live? To have a personality?

Tell me I'm

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I can't be anyone,

but, everyone

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