What's become of John boy? Nothing at all.
Jesus fought the urge to laugh Jesus wept.
Some people are like oceans.
You can drown in them.
You don't even have the will to die.
Smile now, I am gone.
Don't hold on for too long.
The rope'll slip away.
At what age did I first wage the war against happiness?
When did I first side with sadness?
A long time ago.
Oh, the noise the skeletons make
trying on new bodies.
I want to be too sad for comfort.
Scar tissue heals
but never feels again.
These lines and verses were written by Anno Birkin, a British musician who died in 2001, at age 20. His family found them written in his notebooks, on loose scraps of paper, and (some of them) on the walls of his apartment after his death.