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I can feel so unsexy to
someone so beautiful
So unloved, like I’m
not on your mind
I can feel so boring,
feel so uninteresting
So lonely
But I say that
I’m just fine

Steve calls Mary Jane back.

CHORUS:
Ahh

Not on your mind

so lonely
but I say that
I’m just fine

MARY JANE: Yes?

STEVE: Look, I’m really sorry about tonight. I just called to keep you in the loop and you—

MARY JANE: Yes. Thank you. I am in the loop. It just keeps going in a circle. That’s what loops do. They don’t change.

STEVE: Honey...would you please just consider seeing that couples’ counselor with me? The one I told you about?

MARY JANE: So we can pay someone to tell us you’re a workaholic?

STEVE: Okay. I’m glad I called. (Steve hangs up.)

MARY JANE: Oh these little protections
How they fail to serve me
One last minute phone
call and I’m deflated

CHORUS:
Ahh

STEVE: How these little abandonments / Seem to sting so easily / Your hand pulling away and I’m devastated

CHORUS:
I’m devastated

STEVE:
I can feel so unsexy
To someone so beautiful

MARY JANE: So unloved,
Like I’m not on
your mind

STEVE/MARY JANE:
I can feel so boring,
Feel so
uninteresting
So lonely
But I say that

I’m just fine

MARY JANE: When will you
stop leaving me baby

STEVE: When will you
stop deserting me baby

MARY JANE/STEVE:
Am I just living
with myself²

CHORUS:
So— Someone so

So unloved,
Like I’m not on your
mind

So—
Feel so
uninteresting
So lonely
But I say
that
I’m just
fine

CHORUS 2:
Feel so

So lonely
But I say
that
I’m just
fine

Ahh...

Ahh...

CHORUS:
Am I just living
with myself

MARY JANE: Oh these little rejections how they disappear quickly The moment I decide not to abandon me

2 “This is basically a super-low-self-esteem song.”