[Intro – soft, unsettling]
Once upon a time…
in a house made of empty bottles
and daydream rot…
a little boy learned to disappear.
Hush…
Shhh…
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[Verse 1 – blended story]
Once upon a time in a land far away,
There lived a little boy who drank the hurt away.
Friends called him stupid, brothers laughed and said he’s gay —
So he emptied every bottle ‘til the pain turned grey.
Whiskey was his friend, he never had another,
Vicodin his vice, his poison and his lover.
A pack of smokes for breakfast, pills for dessert —
Every swallow made him blossom, every blossom made him hurt.
I live inside my world of make-believe,
Kids screamin’ in their cradles like a symphony.
I see the world through ink and bleach
Crossin’ out the ones who watched me bleed.
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[Pre-Chorus – haunting lullaby]
Take a sip, take a sip, take a sip…
And a trip, and a trip, and a trip…
And I’m like —
When you bitch? When you bitch? When you bitch?
Counterfeit hypocrite — holy shit.
Fire spreading all around my room,
My world’s so bright it burns me through.
It’s hard to breathe… but that’s alright.
Hush.
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[Chorus – dark pop explosion]
Everybody gets high —
Why the hell can’t I?
If heaven’s full of angels,
Why they never let me fly?
Everybody gets high —
Why the hell can’t I?
If drowning feels like floating,
Am I wrong for wanting sky?
Hush…
Just breathe…
It’s alright.
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[Verse 2 – darker descent]
Tape my eyes open just to force reality,
Why you never let me eat my weight in glee?
Some days I feel skinnier than all the other days,
Some nights I feel like my body’s tryna slip away.
Once upon a time in the same damn place,
He cried all day ‘cause he couldn’t feel his face.
Playboy magazines could never fill the void —
So he downed another bottle just to silence all the noise.
I wanna taste your content,
Hold my breath and feel the tension.
Devils hide behind redemption —
Honesty’s a one-way gate to hell’s dimension.
Every kiss of smoke makes the world distort,
Every pill I swallow is a passport.
Hear the children sing —
Their lullabies are graves that grin.
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[Bridge – whispered, surreal]
Just wanna be carefree lately, yeah…
Kickin’ daisies in a dead-end meadow.
Too many quarters in my pocket,
Wishin’ luck would stop the echo.
Untied laces… trippin’ on daydreams…
Nursery rhymes rot into bloodstream.
Dirty little lullabies on repeat —
Countin’ dead sheep…
just tryin’ to sleep.
Hush…
Shhh…
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[Final Chorus – bigger, darker, emotional]
Everybody gets high —
Why the hell can’t I?
Everybody runs from pain,
So why they judge the way I hide?
Everybody gets high —
Why the hell can’t I?
If my world’s on fire,
Let me burn beneath the light.
Everybody gets high —
Why the hell can’t I?
Why the hell…
Why the hell…
Hush…
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[Outro – fading lullaby]
Take a sip… take a sip…
And drift… and drift…
Hush, little addict…
Go to sleep.
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