Good, How Are You?

Hey, hi, how are you?

Good, how are you?

Good, goodbye, see ya

Autopilot, wish I wasn’t like a violet

So delicate, so quiet

Hey, hi, how are you?

Kinda wish I really knew

But goodbye, see ya

Autopilot, wish I didn’t have to smile it

Tires me, it’s true

Autopilot, autopilot, autopilot, autopilot

Why is my default distance?

Following instinctual social resistance?

Why is my default ending conversation?

As if it’s just another obligation?

Nod and laugh, but not too much

Don’t touch your hair, don’t put a comma there

Don’t look, don’t look away

Till I forget what normal feels like

Be yourself, they say

But what if me is not authentic

As a person, what if hiding is my personality?

Hey, hi, how are you?

Good, how are you?

Good, goodbye, see ya

A million times, and it always ends the same

Hey, hi, how are you?

Kinda wish I really knew

But goodbye, see ya

A million times, and I guess both parties are to blame

Kinda lame I’d claim

Maybe we should feel some shame

We’ve been trained to play a game

I know I’d rather feed a flame

But the motivation never came

So put us in the hall of fame

You might as well just frame our names

'Cause we’re the millionth pair to play the game

Hey, hi, how are you?

Good, how are you?

Good, goodbye, see ya

I know what to do

To pass as normal

Is that something that you think I do?

Maybe none of this is true?

I have studied people’s words and actions

While I sit there still and quiet

Still sometimes I don’t know how to

Mimic what I see although I

Try, I should try, not to try

Maybe I just need to cry

But my eyes, they are dry, my soul is fried

I am blue, like the sky, so tell my

Why are my eyes dry?

Hey, hi, how are you?

Good, how are you?

Good, goodbye, see ya

I don’t know what to say

What combination of the letters

And the symbols I have in my

Pocket make the most sense to combine today?

I don’t know what to do

I have these strategies that I don’t

Always know that I am using until I stop to think about it

Then I wonder what am I avoiding

It’s annoying fighting my own brain again

Do I think that this is making my life easier

Because I think I’ll think again

It’s so much work to care this much and

I don’t know how I can stop this

Round and round I rethink every

Message I receive and write about a hundred times

Hey, hi, how are you?

Good, how are you?

Good, goodbye, see ya

Autopilot, wish I wasn’t like a violet

So delicate, so quiet

Every so often I meet someone who is so

Easy to talk to they make me think maybe I’ve

Gotten a glimpse of what this being human ordeal

Is supposed to look like

Every so often the rules disappear

I stop fearing the what if’s and

For a small stretch

I could swear that it all feels alright

Hey, hi, how are you?

Good, how are you?

Good, goodbye, see ya

Autopilot, wish I wasn’t like a violet

So delicate, so quiet

Hey, hi, how are you?

Kinda wish I really knew

But goodbye, see ya

Autopilot, wish I didn’t have to smile it

Tires me, it’s true

Autopilot, autopilot, autopilot, autopilot