Peter Moren - Social Competence lyrics

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<b>Social Competence</b> by <i>Peter Morén</i><br />As I ran past you in the reception room

I can tense no bitterness can sense no gloom

Are you all this happy?

Or what has escaped me?

As I clear my throat, I mystify

I cut out the essentials, but I never lie

It's no act of random

It's calculated boredom

And when you leave me alone

I pick up the phone to dial

There's someone I know

Who knows how I look when I cry

When I try to get a minute's express

There is always someone trying to do their best

To exhaust me completely

Though they phrase it sweetly

Someone dog or someone's new wed kid

What they didn't do or what they did

Too much information

For one brain to sustain

And specially when it doesn't

make sense to me

'Cause when I try to be sincere

to come a bit near, they leave

I don't wanna talk to you

Talk to you

About the things you do

About your weekend

I don't hear your voice

Make that noise

But I have no choice

There's a chance I know what I might lack

It's a competence you need to cope

In a world gone colder

Thought the surface is hot as hell

There are smiles on parade

But nine out of ten's a fake

And in lessons in self-help all

you really learn is to escape

I don't wanna talk to you

Talk to you

About the things you do

About your weekend

I don't hear your voice

Make that noise

But I have no choice

There's not enough air here

Disappear

Or conceal

That you just want to hear your voice

Make that noise

Leave me out of it, leave me out of it