Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - The Loneliness Inside Me Is A Place Lyrics

will all my twenties find me so guarded?
littered and documented by meticulous word choice and closed lips
to read like:

all things bear this-
a purpose! or romance!

but the truth is much more complicated than that

and i am still trying to learn how time is a gift

(as much as it is a burden)