Better Dreams Than Mine

[Verse 1]
Eyes burn
Blue glow on my face again
Scroll wars
Arguing with strangers at 2 a.m.
Alarm hit
I’m already halfway dead
Pull on this wrinkled shirt
Same coffee, same dread
Long drive
Billboards preaching “live your dream”
Laugh once
Mine got traded for light beams
Boss talk
Says I should be “grateful”
Stare past
Wonder how my heart got so hateful
[Chorus]
Perpetually tired
But I’m wired every night
Clock says sleep, but my brain
Says “we gotta survive”
I’ll carry all this weight
If it keeps you boys alright
I don’t need a better life
I just want you better dreams than mine
[Verse 2]
Lunch break
Eating in a parking lot
Cold fries
Thinking what my parents got
They prayed
I’d escape the way they lived
Now I pray
You escape the way I did
Little shoes by the front door
Tiny coats on the same hook
Your drawings on the fridge door
Saved receipts in a worn book
I’m broke, but you’re laughing
And it cuts me like a knife
How something so perfect
Came from this crooked life
[Chorus]
Perpetually tired
But I’m wired every night
Clock says sleep, but my brain
Says “we gotta survive”
I’ll carry all this weight
If it keeps you boys alright
I don’t need a better life
I just want you better dreams than mine
[Bridge]
If I break, let it be
On the edge of your sunrise (yeah)
If I fade, let it fade
In the glow of your bright eyes
I’ll be the storm
So you can be the quiet sky
I’ll walk through hell
So you can learn what peace is like
[Chorus]
Perpetually tired
But I’m wired every night
Clock says sleep, but my brain
Says “we gotta survive”
I’ll carry all this weight
If it keeps you boys alright
I don’t need a better life
I just want you better dreams than mine (yeah)
I don’t need a better life
I just want you better dreams than mine

rap, Emo rap / alt-pop hybrid with male vocals, intimate close-mic delivery over detuned piano and hazy pads. Sparse trap drums in the verses, 808s growl on downbeats; hook explodes with distorted guitars and stacked shouted doubles. Energy climbs from exhausted mumble to cathartic yell by the final chorus, with a brief half-time drop and delay throws on key phrases., hardcore, pop, emo