“The morning slips away in a Valium haze and catalogues,
And numerous cups of coffee,
In the afternoon the weekly food is put in bags - as you float off down the high street.
The shop windows reflect, play a nameless host to a closet ghost -
A picture of your fantasy, a victim of your misery…”

—  Paul Weller (singer)

Private Hell, from Setting Sons (1979)

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English singer-songwriter, Guitarist 1958

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