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I’m Looking Through You
100 Lyrics into Stories — No27
For a long time, they said he was mad — thinking he heard and saw a girl every time he fell into the drug trips. But something wasn’t right. Something about her wasn’t right.
He wanted to know what lay on the other side of the glass as if she were Alice trapped in another Wonderland.
Sometimes he’d get so high that he’d imagine she was there sitting beside him, mute, even as he tried to ply her with words.
When he actually heard her voice for the first time — well, he cried.
He didn’t care if it was a hallucination.
This is my third take on the 100 Story Challenge! Lyrics define these stories, and this piece‘s title was inspired by “Somebody Else” from The 1975.
For the other stories in this iteration, check out the link below:
If you missed out on rounds one and two, I’ve linked both my original 100 Story Challenge list as well as my 100 Faces in 100 Stories list below for your perusal if you’re curious.
