1. |
intro // sunshower
01:12
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Know that I’m acting like I’ve got nothing left to lose
But at the end of the world
Know that I will think of you
Coping by philosophizing
I’m still here and I’m still trying
Mushroom clouds with silver linings
Only sunny ‘cause the planet’s dying
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2. |
burnout!
02:54
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CHORUS
I’m not trying to burnout
I won’t do it, no
VERSE
Sleep it off, look around
Can only keep up if you’re wearing down
Have you tried monetizing all of your pastimes?
Or minimizing all of your downtime?
PRE
Can I be less if they want more?
Hide away from everything like money offshore
Rise, grind, sleep when I’m dead
What’s the point of living just to try and get ahead?
CHORUS
I’m not trying to burnout
I won’t do it, no
VERSE
Working when you’re not your best
Restless ‘cause you never rest
Have you tried motivating yourself to really try?
Or medicating yourself to optimize?
PRE
Size zero, tighten my belt
Still not thin enough to fit, but maybe it’ll help
Normalize debt and low self-esteem
Don’t you want your piece of the American dream?
CHORUS
I’m not trying to burnout I won’t do it, no
OUTRO
Don’t wanna live like that, wanna do more than get by
Don’t wanna work this, act like this, but I sympathize
Everybody’s scared that their moment’s gonna pass ‘em by
Don’t wanna burn up or burnout (no) just to feel alive
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3. |
DOPAMINEMESSINWITHMYHEAD
02:20
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Treat all of my problems with sugar & caffeine
I’m not really hungry, just ate it for the dopamine
Ah, ah, ah
Always kept on talking to fill up space
Now I’m too scared of death to meditate
Ah, ah, ah
Messin’ with my head, with my head
Every time it’s good I’m thinking how it’s gonna end
Messin’ with my head, with my head
Every time it’s good I’m thinking how it’s gonna end
(Messin’ with my head, with my head
Messin’ with my head, with my head
With my head
With my head, with my head)
Spending money I don’t have, ‘cause I’m bored
Looking up apartments, that I’ll never afford
Ah, ah, ah
Need it here tomorrow, won’t want it in a week
Got a short attention span
Act like that makes me someone unique(ly weak to self-imploding)
Messin’ with my head, with my head
Every time it’s good I’m thinking how it’s gonna end
Messin’ with my head, with my head
Every time it’s good I’m thinking how it’s gonna end
(Messin’ with my head, with my head
Messin’ with my head, with my head
With my head, with my head
With my head, with my head)
(Messin’ with my head, with my
Sugar and caffeine
Messin’ with my head, with my
Head, head, head, head
Thinking how it’s gonna, gonna end
Messing with my head, with my head)
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4. |
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VERSE
Stay in, never go to parties
‘Cause I don’t wanna socialize
(I hate the) small talk (god) so exhausting It makes me wanna die
PRE
Get, get outta my head
Wake up, do it again
CHORUS
Every night
Turn me on, I feel alive
Nobody gets it, that’s alright
I just wanna be with my friends online
‘Cause it’s so real
How I feel
You can touch grass and go outside
I just wanna be with my friends online
VERSE
Not shy, but I don’t fit in here
So I’m just waiting to leave
(‘Cause I’ve got) parasocial friends who listen
Curated company
PRE
Get, get outta my head
Wake up, do it again
CHORUS
Every night
Turn me on, I feel alive
Nobody gets it, that’s alright
I just wanna be with my friends online
‘Cause it’s so real
How I feel
You can touch grass and go outside
I just wanna be with my friends online
BRIDGE
Another day, another cutaway
Another night, another game to play
Another dream, another hideaway
Promise when I tell you that I’m okay
CHORUS
Every night
Turn me on, I feel alive
Nobody gets it, that’s alright
I just wanna be with my friends online
‘Cause it’s so real
How I feel
You can touch grass and go outside
I just wanna be with my friends online
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5. |
Are You Happy?
03:08
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Hate the way you look at me sometimes
It’s like I’ve gone and wasted all my time
Choking, folding, under disappointment
Feel like everything’s a sign
It’s happening again
Sat inside just
Wanting what I could have
But I feel bad
So I lay in bed joking
And I call that coping (ah)
Nothing’s changing
I wanna cry
Know I’m complaining
I spend my life just
Falling asleep to comic relief
And I’ll keep waiting
Worked hard, and act like that makes me
Entitled to someone else’s dream
Days just, go by, if it’s fate why am I
Scared of asking “are you happy?”
It’s happening again
Sat inside just
Wanting what I could have
But I feel bad
So I lay in bed joking
And I call that coping (ah)
Nothing’s changing
I wanna cry
Know I’m complaining
I spend my life just
Falling asleep to comic relief
And I’ll keep waiting
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6. |
interlude // seriously
02:25
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Stacking chairs on a table
On call straight to voicemail
Caught up in the details
(I, I, I, I)
Curate and commodify
Write ‘em off and romanticize
Overthink, overanalyze
(ah, ah, ah, ah)
Emotional speed run
Preemptive nostalgia
I’m a trope of the genre
(ah, ah, and it’s)
Killing me, killing me, killing me
Don’t know how to be, how to be, how to be
Uninvested, less dramatic
Making up a mind that’s so distracted
Why you gotta take it so seriously?
It’s all killing me, killing me, killing me
Don’t know how to be, how to be, how to be
Uninvested, less dramatic
Making up a mind that’s so distracted
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7. |
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Getting restless in this place
28 and my bones ache
Under the weight of
All the lives that I don’t make
I just wanna, I just wanna do everything
(I just wanna, I just wanna do everything)
Places shrink over time
And I wish I could live a small life
Can’t help it
I romanticize
One way ticket outta here, callin’ it quits
Maybe I could be somebody better than this (yeah)
I’m not un-committal, I’m 100%
Sure I’m in love with everyone, but only a bit
Riding trains of thought 'cause I gotta get away
And all I can afford is reverie and paper planes
(Citrus sunsets, other lives
Slideshows that flicker on the back of my eyes)
Places shrink over time
And I wish I could live a small life
Can’t help it
I romanticize
(Yeah I’ll do anything to feel alive)
One way ticket outta here, callin’ it quits
Maybe I could be somebody better than this (yeah)
I’m not un-committal, I’m 100%
Sure I’m in love with everyone, but only a bit
I’m in love with everywhere (but only a bit)
I’m in love with everything (but only a bit)
Everybody new, I think (damn, this is it)
‘Cause I’m in love with everyone (but only a bit)
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