Phantom Penpal-twisted

[ti:Phantom Penpal] [ar:twisted] [al:Utopia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Phantom Penpal - twisted [00:27.34]I've been writing to a long distance lover [00:29.12]This commitment exceeds [00:30.07]That of any of the other relationships [00:32.08]I've forged outta physical connection [00:33.82]Self quarantine every evening at eleven [00:35.97]I've been writing to a phantom pen pal [00:38.16]It's love she never questions any lies I tell [00:39.99] [00:40.55]Nestled in the confidence of words in text [00:42.51]She dwarfs my friends and they're reduced into nothingness [00:44.65]All my best ideas ring out and fall upon absent ears [00:48.17] [00:49.18]The weight of my emotions rests [00:51.64]On the shoulders of a phantom penpal [00:53.91] [01:02.23]The penpal fights the battles that my letters narrate [01:05.74] [01:06.30]She takes the form of any lover that my hand could create [01:09.92] [01:10.50]She plays out all the schemes that I only contemplate [01:14.19] [01:14.96]I see them manifest on the white of the page [01:19.02]But they never translate into positive change [01:23.05]Oh the hopelessness of motionless objects of faith [01:27.42] [01:45.57]I've been finding consolation in solitude [01:47.44]Embracing routine and ritual [01:49.68]For all the sh*t I never get to say [01:51.73]The pencil rests an arms length away