Crash
Navigating Life's Crashes: Gary Numan's Reflections on Change and Time
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Don't things change
Changes are inevitable.
Don't we all
Everyone undergoes change.
What's it like to crash?
Curiosity about the experience of crashing.
The driver
Focusing on the one in control.
Nothing more to prove
No need to prove oneself anymore.
So please just send in the machines
Advocating reliance on machines.
We know little of celebrations
Lack of knowledge about celebrations.
And how things are with you
Uncertain about the current situation of others.
You're hung up on time
Obsession with the concept of time.
You're hung up on age
Preoccupation with one's age.
Now there's me
Introduction of the narrator.
Now there's me
Reiteration of the narrator's presence.
What is it like to
Pondering the experience of crashing again.
Crash? The driver
Revisiting the driver's role in crashing.
You drink to rumors and talk
Resorting to drinking and gossip.
About someone new in your bed
Discussing a new romantic interest.
There is no game to win so
No clear objective or competition.
Get out as fast as you can
Encouragement to leave a situation swiftly.
Hung up on 'the time'
Fixation on the passage of time.
Hung up on 'my age'
Concerns about personal aging.
You don't know
Lack of understanding.
You don't know
Reiteration of ignorance.
What it's like to
Revisiting the curiosity about crashing.
Crash? The driver
Final reflection on crashing and the driver's role.
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