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All the things that fly by me
All the lives that I could lead
Maybe I was born for that
Or maybe I was first to last
You could call it cowardess
But leave me to my studied bliss
He is convincing himself and you that he was raised a certain way, and he thinks he might be a shadow of his parent's life, leave him to his studied bliss, the ignorance of this realization he was taught from childhood.